Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology and the Weizmann Institute of Science identify a means of controlling biological processes that could help treatments for immune disease, neurological disorders and cancer.
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 1, 2012
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Light affects living organisms in many different ways, for example, plants orient their growth direction towards the sun, while circadian rhythms in humans are controlled by daylight. These processes always involve photoreceptors, ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 3, 2023
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We can tell when plants need water: their leaves droop and they start to look dry. But what's happening on a molecular level?
Biotechnology
Nov 3, 2016
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Each cell in an organism has a sensor that measures the health of its "internal" environment. This "alarm" is found in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), which is able to sense cellular stress and trigger either rescue responses ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 17, 2013
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Like a scene out of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," a virus infects a host and converts it into a factory for making more copies of itself. Now researchers have shown that a large group of viruses, including the influenza ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jun 18, 2020
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(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 blue-green ...
Biochemistry
Apr 4, 2012
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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.
Bio & Medicine
Jan 9, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Abhyudai Singh, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Delaware, describes a new method to understand sources of "noise" in gene-expression that create variability in ...
Biotechnology
Sep 26, 2012
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What happens inside plant cells? How can we see proteins in living cells that aren't even visible with a microscope? This was a problem in plant cell biology until the discovery of a fluorescent jellyfish and the isolation ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 18, 2013
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Humans need oxygen molecules for a process called cellular respiration, which takes place in our cells' mitochondria. Through a series of reactions called the electron transport chain, electrons are passed along in a sort ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 3, 2021
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