News tagged with intracellular proteins

Researchers find new 'molecular motors' that bacteria use to transport proteins

(PhysOrg.com) -- Joshua Shaevitz, an assistant professor from the Department of Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University, along with Mingzhai Sun, a postdoctoral associate at ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers predict age of T cells to improve cancer treatment

Manipulation of cells by a new microfluidic device may help clinicians improve a promising cancer therapy that harnesses the body's own immune cells to fight such diseases as metastatic melanoma, non-Hodgkin's ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Prima donna' protein doesn't work well in pairs

A new study by Rice University bioengineers finds that the workhorse proteins that move cargo inside living cells behave like prima donnas. The protein, called kinesin, is a two-legged molecular machine. Rice's ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Harnessing Nanoparticles To Track Cancer Cell Changes

The more dots there are, the more accurate a picture you get when you connect them. Cancer researchers adopting that philosophy have developed a new imaging technology that could give scientists the ability to simultaneously ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Scientists identify key decision-point at which cells with broken DNA repair themselves or die

When cells undergo potentially catastrophic damage, for example as a result of exposure to ionizing radiation, they must make a decision: either to fix the damage or program themselves for death, a process called apoptosis.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1