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All tied up: Tethered protein provides long-sought answer

The tools of biochemistry have finally caught up with lactose repressor protein. Biologists from Rice University in Houston and the University of Florence in Italy this week published new results about "lac ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Surprise in genome structure linked to developmental diseases

A team of researchers from Whitehead Institute, MIT, University of Colorado, and University of Massachusetts have discovered that each cell type in our bodies has a unique genome structure, which is due to a newly discovered ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Single-stranded DNA-binding protein is dynamic, critical to DNA repair

Researchers report that a single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB), once thought to be a static player among the many molecules that interact with DNA, actually moves back and forth along single-stranded ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Important new model shows how proteins find the right DNA sequences

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Uppsala University and Harvard University have collaboratively developed a new theoretical model to explain how proteins can rapidly find specific DNA sequences, even though ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0