News tagged with molecular networks
Cell protein interactions favor fats
For cells to signal each other to carry out their vital work, could the cell membrane's lipids -- or fats -- play a role in buttering-up the process? A research group led by University of Illinois at Chicago chemistry professor ...
Mar 22, 2012 |
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Unraveling biological networks
A new approach to disentangling the complexities of biological networks, such as the way in which proteins interact in our body's cells has been developed by researchers in China. The team's algorithm could allow biologists ...
Mar 05, 2012 |
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New insight in how cells' powerhouse divides
New research from the University of California, Davis, and the University of Colorado at Boulder puts an unexpected twist on how mitochondria, the energy-generating structures within cells, divide. The work, ...
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Scientists identify the largest network of protein interactions related to Alzheimer's disease
Through a complex analysis of protein interactions, researchers from IRB Barcelona and the Joint Programme IRB-BSC have discovered new molecular mechanisms that may be involved in the development of Alzheimer's disease. The ...
Dec 16, 2010 |
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Scientists Explain Why Computers Crash But We Don't
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nature and software engineers face similar design challenges in creating control systems. The different solutions they employ help explain why living organisms tend to malfunction less than ...
May 03, 2010 |
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Molecular Middle Managers Make More Decisions Than Bosses
(PhysOrg.com) -- Organisms are structured at the molecular level in ways similar to social hierarchies. In some, master genetic regulators call most of the shots, and in others most of life's activities are ...
Mar 29, 2010 |
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Without Key Receptors, New Brain Cells Do Not Survive Migration
(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly created brain cells lacking a critical receptor do not survive a long migration to join complex neural networks, a Yale University research team reports March 25 in the journal Neuron.
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Mar 24, 2010 |
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Looking for the heartbeat of cellular networks
Our cells' molecules form an intricate network of interactions. Today's techniques, however, can only be used to measure individual molecular reactions outside the cells. Since molecular concentrations are much higher in ...
Dec 16, 2009 |
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