News tagged with protein myosin
Researchers reshape basic understanding of cell division
By tracking the flow of information in a cell preparing to split, Johns Hopkins scientists have identified a protein mechanism that coordinates and regulates the dynamics of shape change necessary for division of a single ...
Nov 05, 2010 |
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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 ...
May 10, 2011 |
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'Relaxation' a critical step in vertebrate brain development
(PhysOrg.com) -- Normal vertebrate brain ventricle formation relies upon the stretchiness or "relaxation" of the neuroepithelium, which is regulated by the motor protein myosin. This process was discovered ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 12, 2010 |
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Small mechanical forces have big impact on embryonic stem cells
Applying a small mechanical force to embryonic stem cells could be a new way of coaxing them into a specific direction of differentiation, researchers at the University of Illinois report. Applications for force-directed ...
Oct 18, 2009 |
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Autopilot guides proteins in brain
Proteins go everywhere in the cell and do all sorts of work, but a fundamental question has eluded biologists: How do the proteins know where to go?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Study offers clues to beating hearing loss
Researchers at the University of Leeds have made a significant step forward in understanding the causes of some forms of deafness.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Biologists learn structure, mechanism of powerful 'molecular motor' in virus
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered the atomic structure of a powerful "molecular motor" that packages DNA into the head segment of some viruses during their assembly, an essential step in their ability ...
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Dec 24, 2008 |
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Let's stretch... Scientists study myomesin protein
The proteins actin, myosin and titin are big players in the business of muscle contraction. Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Hamburg, Germany, have now examined another muscle protein – ...
Feb 14, 2012 |
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Study finds protein critical to breast cancer cell proliferation, migration
Researchers have found that a protein linked to cell division and migration and tied to increased cell proliferation in ovarian tumors is also present at high levels in breast cancer specimens and cell lines. The protein, ...
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Scientists uncover new mechanism of memory formation
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a mechanism that plays a critical role in the formation of long-term memory. The findings shed substantial new light on aspects of how memory ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 25, 2010 |
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Cellular Workouts Strengthen Endothelial Cells' Grasp
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Pennsylvania bioengineers have demonstrated that the cells that line blood vessels respond to mechanical forces -- the microscopic tugging and pulling on cellular structures ...
May 13, 2010 |
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Potential new heart attack biomarker uncovered
Though they remain a leading killer, heart attacks can be effectively treated provided they can be rapidly diagnosed following initial onset of symptoms. In a study appearing in this month's Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, resear ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Why 'lazy Susan' has a weak heart
When young, apparently healthy athletes suddenly collapse, it can be due to hereditary cardiac disease. Researchers at the Heidelberg University Hospital have now discovered a genetic modification that leads to cardiac weakness ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 05, 2009 |
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