News tagged with protein level

Engineers use droplet microfluidics to create glucose-sensing microbeads

Tiny beads may act as minimally invasive glucose sensors for a variety of applications in cell culture systems and tissue engineering

Technology / Engineering

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How heroin works: Imaging opioid receptors in the brain

(Phys.org) -- Researchers and doctors have gleaned new clues to the molecular mechanisms behind some of the most addictive substances in the world, thanks to two new studies that uncovered the structures of ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Shedding light on photosynthesis

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine being able to monitor protein expression levels in a cell as they change over time and in response to external stimuli. That is just what researchers did when they studied the photosynthetic ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study reports novel drug technology that boosts therapeutic proteins

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Miller School-led research team has created a groundbreaking drug technology platform that enables the body to increase its protein levels, a novel invention that potentially could usher in treatment for ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Overgrazed grasslands tied to locust outbreaks

While residents of the United States and much of Europe think of locust plagues as biblical references, locust swarms still have devastating effects on agriculture today, especially in developing countries ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanoparticle proteomics: Characterizing protein-nanoparticle interactions in biofluids

New insights about how the human body interacts with nanoparticles at the protein level were published by an EMSL user team in the December 2011 issue 23 of Proteomics.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Why do some influenza virus subtypes die out?

Every so often we hear about a new strain of influenza virus which has appeared and in some cases may sweep across the globe in a pandemic, much as the H1N1 virus did last year. What happens to the old seasonal viruses? In ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Frogs skin gives researchers the hop on bacteria

Skin secretions found in Australian frogs may hold the key to designing powerful new antibiotics that are not prone to bacterial resistance in humans, say researchers.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers identify structure of apolipoprotein

Using a sophisticated technique of x-ray crystallography, researchers Xiaohu Mei, PhD, and David Atkinson, PhD, from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have for the first time obtained an "image" of the structure ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Breakthrough in the production of flood-tolerant crops

As countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam and parts of the United States and United Kingdom have fallen victim to catastrophic flooding in recent years, tolerance of crops to partial or complete submergence ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Oxygen inactivates the enzyme function in three phases: study

Scientists from the Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology at the RUB have published a report in the Journal of Biological Chemistry explaining why enzymes used for the production of hydrogen are so sensitive to oxygen. In col ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New equation predicts molecular forces in hydrophobic interactions

The physical model to describe the hydrophobic interactions of molecules has been a mystery that has challenged scientists and engineers since the 19th century. Hydrophobic interactions are central to explaining ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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

X-rays help advance the battle against heart disease

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Imperial College London and Diamond Light Source have revealed the structure of a cholesterol-lowering-drug target. Published in the journal Nature, this finding could lead ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

First detection of pregnancy protein in older people destined for Alzheimer's disease

In an advance toward a much-needed early diagnostic test for Alzheimer's disease (AD), scientists have discovered that older women destined to develop AD have high blood levels of a protein linked to pregnancy ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast