News tagged with ribosomal genes
Researchers uncover new mechanistic insight into mRNA biogenesis and export
A team of EU-funded Spanish and Polish researchers have revealed the structure of a protein complex that is essential for messenger RNA (mRNA) biogenesis and export. Writing in the European Molecular Biology ...
Mar 19, 2012 |
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From gene to protein: Gene expression quantification offers new insights
How do genes control us? This fundamental question of life still remains elusive despite decades of research. Genes are blueprints for proteins, but it is the proteins that actually carry out vital functions in the body for ...
May 18, 2011 |
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New finding in ribosome signaling may lead to improved antibiotics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have discovered a signaling mechanism in the bacterial ribosome that detects proteins that activate genes for antibiotic resistance.
Feb 23, 2011 |
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Scientists make fundamental discovery about how gene expression functions in bacteria
Researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered and characterized a general mechanism that controls transcription elongation in bacteria. The mechanism, described in the April 23 issue of Science, relies on phy ...
Apr 22, 2010 |
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Genes under control:Sscientists develop gene switch for chloroplasts in plant cells
The organelles of photosynthesis -- the chloroplasts - have their own DNA, messenger RNA and ribosomes for forming proteins. Max Planck scientists have now discovered how to regulate the formation of proteins in the chloroplasts. ...
Mar 30, 2010 |
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'Metabolic taxation': Even oysters pay taxes
In physical, as in financial growth, it's not what you make but what you keep that counts, USC marine biologists believe.
Mar 18, 2010 |
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Scientists visualize assembly line gears in ribosomes, cell's protein factory
Even as research on the ribosome, one of the cell's most basic machines, is recognized with a Nobel Prize, scientists continue to achieve new insights on the way ribosomes work.
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Systems Biology Reveals Diversity in Key Environmental Cleanup Microbe
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have completed the first thorough, system-level assessment of the diversity of an environmentally important genus of microbes known as Shewanella. Microbes belonging to that genus ...
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Genomic study yields plausible cause of colony collapse disorder
Researchers report this week that they have found a surprising but reliable marker of colony collapse disorder, a baffling malady that in 2007-2008 killed off more than a third of commercial honey bees in ...
Aug 24, 2009 |
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