News tagged with phosphate chains

Understanding how bacteria come back from the dead

Salmonella remains a serious cause of food poisoning in the UK and throughout the EU, in part due to its ability to thrive and quickly adapt to the different environments in which it can grow. New research involving a team ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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New study reveals the protein that makes phosphate chains in yeast

Phosphate chains store energy and have many more different functions in a cell.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Nutrient supply after algal bloom determines the succession of the bacterial population

Algal blooms can considerably interfere with summer holidays by the sea. In the coastal zone of temperate regions a spring algal bloom is not a sign of excessive nutrient input, but most of all a consequence ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Microbes go rafting on floating volcanic rocks

Volcanoes bring death and destruction, but out of the ashes life soon finds fertile ground. A unique experiment is sifting through floating debris from an ongoing volcanic event to see how microbes move in. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chemists explain the molecular workings of promising fuel cell electrolyte

Researchers from New York University and the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart reveal how protons move in phosphoric acid in a Nature Chemistry study that sheds new light on the workings of a promising fuel cell electrolyte.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New component of a plant steroid-activated pathway discovered

Plant biologists have been working for years to nail down the series of chemical signals that one class of plant hormones, called brassinosteroids, send from a protein on the surface of a plant cell to the cell's nucleus. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers solve decades-old molecular mystery linked to blood clotting

Blood clotting is a complicated business, particularly for those trying to understand how the body responds to injury. In a new study, researchers report that they are the first to describe in atomic detail ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nano-motor with a light switch: Light-triggered myosin allows real-time study of cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Molecular "motors" are at the root of most biological movement. They propel cell components, whole cells, and even our muscles on command. Barbara Imperiali and a team from the Massachusetts ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

More than mere pond scum

(PhysOrg.com) -- Algae could soon become a valuable biofuel resource, according to research at the University of Arizona.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Unsung bedrock of prosperity

Modern agriculture would be inconceivable without phosphate fertilizers - and it needs more and more of them. Experts warn of an imminent phosphorus shortage. But not Roland Scholz from the Institute of Environmental ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

How to separate a sheep from its flock

(PhysOrg.com) -- When the signaling proteins known as kinases stop working, the results can be dramatic. Glitches in the enzymes can trigger diabetes, impair immune function, or drive the spread of cancers, ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Developing a library of cancer proteins

Ten years after the first human genome was sequenced, science is about to reach a new milestone. Researchers are now turning their attention to the products which use genes as instructions for their assembly: ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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