News tagged with bundled proteins

Simplicity is crucial to design optimization at nanoscale

MIT researchers who study the structure of protein-based materials with the aim of learning the key to their lightweight and robust strength have discovered that the particular arrangement of proteins that ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Math predicts size of clot-forming cells

UC Davis mathematicians have helped biologists figure out why platelets, the cells that form blood clots, are the size and shape that they are. Because platelets are important both for healing wounds and in strokes and other ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineers scale-up production of biopolymer microthreads

Development of new therapies for a range of medical conditions—from common sports injuries to heart attacks—will be supported by a new production-scale microthread extruder designed and built by ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Determining a stem cell's fate: Biologists scour mouse genome for genes and markers that lead to T cells

What happens to a stem cell at the molecular level that causes it to become one type of cell rather than another? At what point is it committed to that cell fate, and how does it become committed? The answers ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Identifying poverty levels requires accurate measurements

When food prices spiked in 2008, the number of households that moved into poverty was overestimated by about 60 percent, according to a recent University of Illinois study. In middle-income countries such as Mexico that have ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Diamond light, brighter than the sun

It’s the size of five football pitches and generates light 10 billion times brighter than the sun. As the Diamond Light Source celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, Penny Bailey visits one of the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

New method pinpoints important gene-regulation proteins

A novel technique has been developed and demonstrated at Penn State University to map the proteins that read and regulate chromosomes -- the string-like structures inside cells that carry genes. The specific ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fastest X-ray images of tiny biological crystals

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team headed by DESY scientists from the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) in Hamburg, Germany, has recorded the shortest X-ray exposure of a protein crystal ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 5

New protein structure expands nature's repertoire of biomolecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- Proteins – the building blocks of life – come in so many different shapes and sizes that it’s easy to think nature must have already exhausted all possible combinations.  ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Turning viruses into molecular Legos

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned a benign virus into an engineering tool for assembling structures that mimic collagen, one of the most important structural proteins in nature. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Bioengineers reprogram muscles to combat degeneration

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned back the clock on mature muscle tissue, coaxing it back to an earlier stem cell stage to form new muscle. Moreover, they showed in mice that ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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