News tagged with competitive inhibition

Inhibiting proteins may prevent cartilage breakdown in arthritis patients

Current arthritis medications can ease the pain, but stopping the progression of the disease requires more aggressive treatments: use of very limited available drugs or surgical intervention. University of Missouri researchers ...

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created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Deterring signals: Tobacco plants advertise their defensive readiness to attacking leafhoppers

Following herbivory, plants produce jasmonic acid, a hormone which activates several plant defense reactions. Scientists found that leafhoppers can evaluate whether tobacco plants are ready for defense when attacked. If jasmonate-signaling ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New treatments could reduce odors in cotton fabric

Socks, T-shirts and other garments could become less hospitable to odor-causing bacteria, thanks to new antimicrobial treatments being investigated by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in New ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hyperspectral imaging: Shedding new light on wound healing

(Phys.org) -- Clinicians who treat severe wounds may soon have powerful new diagnostic tools in the form of hyperspectral imaging (HSI) devices, calibrated to new NIST standard reference spectra, which will ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New inhibitors of a cancer-causing protein may lead to targeted therapeutics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Markus Seeliger, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Stony Brook University School of Medicine, and collaborators at Harvard University, have developed and ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Fiercer competition for quicker innovations

Reading e-mails while on the move, downloading music, or watching videos is quite normal for smartphone users. European mobile communication markets, however, are far behind the top innovator: Japan. This is identified by ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists show positive effects of affirmative action policies promoting women

Interventions to promote women have continuously been criticized as ineffective and inhibiting performance. Economists of the University of Innsbruck have now rejected this criticism; they conducted a series of experiments ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists reveal how cholera bacterium gains a foothold in the gut

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of biologists at the University of York has made an important advance in our understanding of the way cholera attacks the body. The discovery could help scientists target treatments for the globally ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Clearing a potential road block to bisabolane: Key enzyme structure identified

(PhysOrg.com) -- The recent discovery that bisabolane, a member of the terpene class of chemical compounds used in fragrances and flavorings, holds high promise as a biosynthetic alternative to D2 diesel fuel ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

House-hunting honey bees work like complex brains: study

Swarms of bees and brains made up of neurons make decisions using strikingly similar mechanisms, says a new study in the Dec. 9 issue of Science.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chemical warfare on the reef: How certain seaweed species harm corals

Scientists for the first time have identified and mapped the chemical structure of molecules used by certain species of marine seaweed to kill or inhibit the growth of reef-building coral. Chemicals found ...

Space & Earth / Environment

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