A research team including the involvement of the UAB has identified the P116 protein, by which the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae obtains cholesterol and other lipids needed to survive. The study, led by the IBMB-CSIC and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 21, 2023
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Human development starts from the fertilization of a fully matured oocyte. Oocyte maturation, fertilization, and early embryo development before zygotic activation is characterized by the absence of new transcription from ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 19, 2023
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Mitochondria are considered to be the power plants of cells and are essential for human metabolism. Dysfunction in 40% of mitochondrial proteins are associated with human diseases, which is why mitochondria also play an important ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 5, 2023
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Genes control the way living things look and even function, what eye color they may have and even what diseases they may live with. Scientists have worked for decades to understand how some genes get switched on while others ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Dec 13, 2022
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At the heart of every CRISPR reaction, whether naturally occurring in bacteria or harnessed by CRIPSR-Cas gene editing technology, is a strong molecular bond of a Cas protein via a guide RNA to its target site on DNA. It's ...
Biotechnology
Dec 6, 2022
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A new study has deciphered the mechanical code of DNA to reveal previously unknown ways in which nature encodes biological information in DNA sequence.
Biotechnology
Dec 5, 2022
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Chronic pain is an extremely common condition that affects about 20% of the general population. Given the shortage of effective and non-addictive analgesics, new anti-pain drugs are eagerly awaited. Voltage-gated sodium channel ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 28, 2022
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The mechanism by which fat-related molecules called lipids regulate pacemaker ion channel proteins, which help control the heart rhythm, has been revealed in a study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 9, 2022
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In a living being, proteins make up roughly everything: from the molecular machines running every cell's metabolism, to the tip of your hair. Encoded in the DNA, a protein may be represented as a thread of hundreds of individual ...
Biotechnology
Nov 8, 2022
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A new imaging technique captures the structure of the human genome at unprecedented resolution, revealing how individual genes fold at the nucleosome level—the fundamental units constituting the genome's three-dimensional ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 13, 2022
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