News tagged with building blocks
Related topics: protein , molecules , amino acids
Discovering the bigger picture in chromosomes
By mapping various genomes onto an X-Y axis, a team comprised mostly of Kansas State University researchers has found that Charles Darwin and a fruit fly -- among other organisms -- have a lot in common genetically.
Jul 06, 2011 |
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Penn researchers help nanoscale engineers choose self-assembling proteins
Engineering structures on the smallest possible scales -- using molecules and individual atoms as building blocks -- is both physically and conceptually challenging. An interdisciplinary team of researchers ...
May 30, 2011 |
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Study: Error prevention, rather than correction, best for future of nanoelectronic devices
The move toward smarter, lighter and more powerful electronics, computers and smartphones depends on whether transistor circuits, the building blocks of such devices, can process large amounts of information. As these circuits ...
May 26, 2011 |
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Sorted building blocks: Poly(propylene carbonate) stereogradient
(PhysOrg.com) -- The properties of polymers—long chain molecules from which plastics are made—depend on the type of individual building blocks in them, as well as the order they are in and how they ...
Mar 18, 2011 |
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New life form found on Earth: Deadly arsenic breathes life into organisms (Update, Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Evidence that the toxic element arsenic can replace the essential nutrient phosphorus in biomolecules of a naturally occurring bacterium expands the scope of the search for life beyond Earth, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 02, 2010 |
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Playing with building blocks of creativity help children with autism
In an attempt to help children with autism learn the building blocks of creativity, researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) tapped a toy box staple for help – legos. By building lego structures ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Turbo-packed RNA: Turbo reagent allows precise synthesis of tRNA nucleosides
(PhysOrg.com) -- Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a biologically important molecule that is very similar to DNA, the blueprint of life. Naturally occurring RNAs, such as transfer RNA (tRNA), contain modified building ...
Nov 05, 2010 |
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Going nature one better: Researchers learn biology's secrets for making tough, resilient materials
Nature has one very big advantage over any human research team: plenty of time. Billions of years, in fact. And over all that time, it has produced some truly amazing materials — using weak building blocks ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 22, 2010 |
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Your body recycling itself -- captured on film (w/ Video)
Our bodies recycle proteins, the fundamental building blocks that enable cell growth and development. Proteins are made up of a chain of amino acids, and scientists have known since the 1980s that first one ...
Sep 13, 2010 |
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Online collaboration with built-in clarity
(PhysOrg.com) -- Software packages that interoperate while providing online users with an overview of their colleagues' work may finally threaten the dominance of email as the world's premier collaboration ...
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Powerhouses in the cell dismantled
All of life is founded on the interactions of millions of proteins. These are the building blocks for cells and form the molecular mechanisms of life. The problem is that proteins are extremely difficult to study, particularly ...
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Space Hand-Me-Downs
Molecules vital to life have been detected in outer space and isolated in meteorites and comets. Some of this material that rained down on Earth may have jump-started biology. If so, these space seeds also ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Model suggests how life's code emerged from primordial soup
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1953, Stanley Miller filled two flasks with chemicals assumed to be present on the primitive Earth, connected the flasks with rubber tubes and introduced some electrical sparks as a stand-in for lightning. ...
Aug 07, 2009 |
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When cells reach out and touch
MicroRNAs are single-stranded snippets that, not long ago, were given short shrift as genetic junk. Now that studies have shown they regulate genes involved in normal functioning as well as diseases such as cancer, everyone ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
May 01, 2009 |
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Cells get two chances, not just one, to fix their mistakes
Cells have two chances to fix the same mistake in their protein-making process instead of just one - a so-called proofreading step - that had previously been identified, according to new research.
Mar 12, 2009 |
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