Chemists at UC San Diego have developed a method that for the first time provides scientists the ability to attach chemical probes onto proteins and subsequently remove them in a repeatable cycle.
Biochemistry
Sep 16, 2012
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Florida State University researchers have new insight into the tiny packages that cells use to move molecules, a structure that is key to cellular metabolism, drug delivery and more.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 23, 2020
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have created a new method of studying the smallest bioparticles in the body. The study, which is published in Nature Biotechnology, has considerable scientific potential, such as in the ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 12, 2023
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A new method for labeling molecules with radioactive elements could let chemists more easily track how drugs under development are metabolized in the body.
Materials Science
Jan 13, 2016
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Drug addiction is a vicious cycle of reward and withdrawal. Chronic users often relapse because of the unpleasant physical and psychological symptoms they experience when they stop taking the drug. Now, researchers report ...
Biochemistry
Oct 16, 2019
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(Phys.org)—Drug design involves guided trial-and-error. How the body metabolizes a particular drug is important for determining drug efficacy. There have been many studies to understand how xenobiotics interact with cytochrome ...
Research led by Wayne L. Backes, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology and Associate Dean for Research at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, has found that drug metabolism depends not only upon which enzymes ...
Biochemistry
Mar 17, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Apelin is a recently discovered peptide that binds to the apelin (or APJ) G-protein-coupled receptor. Apelin-13 (NH2-QRPRLSHKGPMPF-COOH), one of several cleavage products of the proprotein form of the apelin ...
Biochemistry
Jun 1, 2010
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For most dog owners, their four-legged friends are more than a trusty companion. They are practically members of the family.
Veterinary medicine
Feb 12, 2024
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Numerous processes in our body fluctuate in a regular pattern during the day. These circadian (or daily) variations can be driven by local oscillators present within our cells or by systemic signals controlled by the master ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 23, 2012
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