News tagged with transport factors
How bacteria make syringes: Scientists reconstruct bacterial transport channel in test tube
For a successful infection, bacteria must outwit the immune system of the host. To this aim, they deliver so-called virulence factors through a transport channel located in the bacterial membrane. In some ...
Jun 13, 2010 |
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Transcription factors guide differences in human and chimp brain function
Humans share at least 97 percent of their genes with chimpanzees, but, as a new study of transcription factors makes clear, what you have in your genome may be less important than how you use it.
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Multiple genes implicated in autism
(PhysOrg.com) -- By pinpointing two genes that cause autism-like symptoms in mice, researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shown for the first time that multiple, interacting genetic risk factors ...
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Researchers construct a device that mimics one of nature's key transport machines
(PhysOrg.com) -- To help protect its genes, a cell is highly selective about what it allows to move in and out of its nucleus. Yet that choosiness is regulated by just a thin barrier, perforated with tiny ...
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Jan 06, 2009 |
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