News tagged with protein activity

A cell's first steps: Building a model to explain how cells grow

A collaboration between Lehigh University physicists and University of Miami biologists addresses an important fundamental question in basic cell biology: How do living cells figure out when and where to grow?

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cellular secrets of plant fatty acid production understood; discovery could boost bioeconomy

(Phys.org) -- Research groups from Iowa State University and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have uncovered the function of three plant proteins, a discovery that could help plant scientists boost ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover new layer of genetic information that helps determine how fast proteins are produced

A hidden and never before recognized layer of information in the genetic code has been uncovered by a team of scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) thanks to a technique developed ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Clock gene helps plants prepare for spring flowering, study shows

Scientists have made fresh discoveries about the processes that govern plants' internal body clocks and help them adjust to changing seasons, triggering the arrival of flowers in spring.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mapping of protein inhibitors facilitates development of tailor-made anticancer agents

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has generated a map over the effects of small drug-like molecules on PARP1 and other similar proteins in the body. This map may explain the mechanism ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Copper iodide nanoparticles effective against 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus

Copper-iodide nanoparticles have long-lasting antiviral activity against the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, according to a paper in the February issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Making the worms turn

To biophysicist Aravinthan Samuel, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans provides a pathway to understanding the brain and nervous system, first of the worm, then of higher animals, and even, perhaps, of humans.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study provides new insights into an ancient mechanism of mammalian evolution

A team of geneticists and computational biologists in the UK today reveal how an ancient mechanism is involved in gene control and continues to drive genome evolution. The new study is published in the journal ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Twenty-year protein mystery solved with surprising results

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of the CRYM protein, previously connected with deafness and cancer, has now proven that it has an enzymatic function. This opens up new implications for the treatment of neurological ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Plasma treatment zaps viruses before they can attack cells

Researchers test a pre-emptive anti-viral treatment on a common virus known to cause respiratory infections.

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Finnish researchers discover regulator of human cell activity

The research teams headed by Prof. Johanna Ivaska (University of Turku and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland) and Prof. Marko Salmi (University of Turku and the National Institute for Health and Welfare) have discovered ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers build largest protein interaction map to date

Researchers have built a map that shows how thousands of proteins in a fruit fly cell communicate with each other . This is the largest and most detailed protein interaction map of a multicellular organism, demonstrating ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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New membrane lipid measuring technique may help fight disease

Could controlling cell-membrane fat play a key role in turning off disease?

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers flip the switch between development and aging in C. elegans

When researchers at the Buck Institute dialed back activity of a specific mRNA translation factor in adult nematode worms they saw an unexpected genome-wide response that effectively increased activity in specific stress ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers combine active proteins with material derived from fruit fly

Researchers at Rice University and Texas A&M have discovered a way to pattern active proteins into bio-friendly fibers. The "eureka" moment came about because somebody forgot to clean up the lab one night.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast