For sugar to taste sweet and for coffee to be stimulating, or even for light to be seen, first they all need to land on a G protein-coupled receptor. Ubiquitous and diverse, these receptors are a cell's chemical detection ...
Biochemistry
Oct 7, 2019
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Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have used highly sophisticated molecular analyses to identify key proteins in the signaling pathways that cancers use to spread in the body. The study could help in personalizing ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 4, 2019
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45
For the first time, researchers have observed at the molecular level how a protein associated with numerous health problems works.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 3, 2019
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213
A team of researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology and Peking University has used single-particle cryogenic electron microscopy to study the human T cell receptor complex. In their paper published in the journal ...
Researchers have identified a receptor protein that can detect when winter is coming.
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 29, 2019
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What happens at the molecular level when plants defend against invading pathogens? Previously it was assumed that the processes were roughly the same in all plants. However, this is not true, as a team of biologists from ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 15, 2019
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For a drug to intervene in cells or entire organs that are not behaving normally it must first bind to specific protein receptors in the cell membranes. Receptors can change their molecular structure in a multitude of ways ...
Analytical Chemistry
May 20, 2019
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Exploring how a hazardous fungal pathogen 'tastes' its surroundings within a wheat plant to coordinate virulence could be the key to developing new control strategies, scientists believe.
Biotechnology
Apr 24, 2019
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36
Marie Kondo herself couldn't do it any better.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 5, 2019
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175
For the first time ever, scientists have imaged the process by which an individual immune system molecule is switched on in response to a signal from the environment, leading to the critical discovery that the activation ...
Biochemistry
Apr 1, 2019
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