Met Office technology used to study climate change is being used by scientists to predict the behaviour of vitalsorting and location of proteins cells in cells of the the human body.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 30, 2017
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Ion channels are proteins that form pores in cellular membranes, which can be opened and shut like lock gates to allow the passage of electrically charged atoms (ions). Members of this class of proteins are crucial components ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 10, 2017
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Have you ever collected coins, cards, toy trains, stuffed animals? Did you feel the need to complete the set? If so, then you may be a completist. A completist will go to great lengths to acquire a complete set of something.
Biotechnology
Dec 19, 2016
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The first vertebrate to be genetically sequenced in Spain, the Turbot (Scophthalmus maximus), has a much more highly developed sense of sight than other fish, since it has evolved in order to adapt itself to the lack of light ...
Ecology
Mar 9, 2016
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The research article embraces the status of the experimental situation and touches obstacles that still hinder the applications of single molecules in the cellular environment.
Biotechnology
Feb 22, 2016
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The ability to control the transfer of molecules through cellular membranes is an important function in synthetic biology; a new study from researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and ...
Biochemistry
Feb 11, 2016
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Biophysicists have developed a hypothesis to explain the function of a light-driven protein that pumps sodium ions across a cell membrane, and they have revealed the key structural feature of these pumps. The sodium pumps ...
Biochemistry
Dec 15, 2015
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Everyone who took high school biology learned that photosynthesis is the process by which plants, algae and select bacteria transform the Sun's energy into chemical energy during the daytime. But these photosynthetic organisms ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 16, 2015
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Chemists and biologists at UC San Diego have succeeded in designing and synthesizing an artificial cell membrane capable of sustaining continual growth, just like a living cell.
Biochemistry
Jun 22, 2015
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Infectious diseases kill more people worldwide than any other single cause, but treatment often fails because a small fraction of bacterial cells can transiently survive antibiotics and recolonize the body. A study published ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 4, 2015
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