News tagged with cell cytoplasm

Copy of the genetic makeup travels in a protein suitcase

Scientists from the Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Bonn have succeeded for the first time in the real time filming of the transport of an important information carrier in biological ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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'Copper pump's' potential benefit in cancer treatment

(Phys.org) -- A team of University of California, San Diego researchers has made new discoveries about a copper-transporting protein in the membranes of human cells that drug-discovery scientists can co-opt ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Research reveals novel transport mechanism for large ribonucleoproteins

The movement of genetic materials, such as RNA and ribosomes, from the nucleus to the cytoplasm is a critical component in a cell's ability to make the proteins necessary for essential biological functions. Until now, it ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Researchers uncover new mechanistic insight into mRNA biogenesis and export

A team of EU-funded Spanish and Polish researchers have revealed the structure of a protein complex that is essential for messenger RNA (mRNA) biogenesis and export. Writing in the European Molecular Biology ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Amoeba offers key clue to photosynthetic evolution

(PhysOrg.com) -- The major difference between plant and animal cells is the photosynthetic process, which converts light energy into chemical energy. When light isn't available, energy is generated by breaking ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Built-in 'self-destruct timer' causes ultimate death of messenger RNA in cells

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered the first known mechanism by which cells control the survival of messenger RNA (mRNA) -- arguably biology's most important molecule. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Control gene for developmental timing discovered

University of Alberta researchers have identified a key regulator that controls the speed of development in the fruit fly. When the researchers blocked the function of this regulator, animals sped up their rate of development ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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New technique elucidates dynamics of plant cell metabolites

A new technique developed by researchers at RIKEN has clarified the location and dynamics of specific metabolites in a single cell of the alga Chara australis. The findings reveal that these metabolites are re ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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New technique sheds light on the mysterious process of cell division

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a new technique in which models of primitive cells are constructed from the bottom up, scientists have demonstrated that the structure of a cell's membrane and cytoplasm may be as important ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Cell viscosity research improves our knowledge of cancer cells

EU-funded researchers from Germany and Poland have made some groundbreaking discoveries about cell cytoplasm viscosity, which could further our knowledge of the cytoplasm of cancer cells.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Salmonella utilize multiple modes of infection

Scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig, Germany have discovered a new, hitherto unknown mechanism of Salmonella invasion into gut cells: In this entry mode, the bacteria exploit the mu ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Scientists engineer nanoscale vaults to encapsulate 'nanodisks' for drug delivery

(PhysOrg.com) -- There's no question, drugs work in treating disease. But can they work better, and safer?

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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How molecules get to the right place at the right time

Active transport processes in cells ensure that proteins with specialized local functions reach their intracellular destinations. Impaired transport causes cellular dysfunction or even cell death. Scientists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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How disordered proteins spread from cell to cell, potentially spreading disease

One bad apple is all it takes to spoil the barrel. And one misfolded protein may be all that's necessary to corrupt other proteins, forming large aggregations linked to several incurable neurodegenerative diseases such as ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In scientific first, researchers visualize naturally occurring mRNA

In a technique that could eventually shed light on how gene expression influences human disease, scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have for the first time ever successfully visualized ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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