Blue-green algae (AKA cyanobacteria) have a superpower which likely helps them be highly successful as invaders of waterways. They have an extraordinary ability to store energy and nitrogen in their cells for times of need. ...
Biochemistry
Sep 30, 2022
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A research collaboration that combines novel "big-data" informatics tools with expertise in basic biology has uncovered details of an essential process in life: how a crucial enzyme locates the site on DNA where it begins ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 3, 2016
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The actions of a protein used for DNA replication and repair are guided by electrostatic forces known as phosphate steering, a finding that not only reveals key details about a vital process in healthy cells, but provides ...
Biotechnology
Jun 29, 2017
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For humans to grow and to replace and heal damaged tissues, the body's cells must continually reproduce, a process known as "cell division," by which one cell becomes two, two become four, and so on. A key question of biomedical ...
Biotechnology
Dec 20, 2012
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Scientists have shed light on how naturally occurring mutations can be introduced into our DNA.
Biotechnology
Jan 27, 2015
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(Phys.org) —Reporting this month in Molecular Microbiology, Peter Chien and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst describe using a combination of biochemistry and mass spectrometry to "trap" scores of new ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 27, 2013
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A gene called MYC has become one of the hottest targets for cancer researchers around the world. MYC is known to drive tumor growth in nearly all cancer types—but successfully targeting the gene has proven to be a challenge. ...
Biochemistry
Jul 8, 2019
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It's widely accepted that molecular mechanisms mediating epigenetics include DNA methylation and histone modifications, but a team from Thomas Jefferson University has evidence to the contrary regarding the role of histone ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 23, 2012
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The foundation of biological inheritance is DNA replication – a tightly coordinated process in which DNA is simultaneously copied at hundreds of thousands of different sites across the genome. If that copying mechanism ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 13, 2012
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Researchers have identified a critical mechanism that allows deadly bacteria to gain resistance to antibiotics.
Biochemistry
Mar 8, 2021
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