Differences in the levels of two key metabolic enzymes may explain why some people are more susceptible to liver damage, according to a study in the October 17 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 17, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Our body consists of individual organs that are made of cells, which in turn contain a number of separate organelles. Biological function cannot be maintained if there are no separate compartments, and compartments ...
Materials Science
Oct 6, 2011
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It's a chicken and egg question. Where do the infectious protein particles called prions come from? Essentially clumps of misfolded proteins, prions cause neurodegenerative disorders, such as mad cow/Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 23, 2011
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Newly synthesized proteins can only fold into their correct three dimensional structure thanks to chaperones. In case of membrane proteins chaperones do not only prevent their aggregation, but also escort them to their destination ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 5, 2011
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(Medical Xpress) -- Patricia Clark, the Rev. John Cardinal O’Hara, C.S.C. Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, and Bonnie Berger, professor of applied mathematics at the ...
Biochemistry
Jun 16, 2011
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The Huffington Post received more traffic than the website of The New York Times in May, the first time it has surpassed NYTimes.com in unique visitors, tracking firm comScore said Thursday.
Internet
Jun 10, 2011
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A study of more than 100 popular websites used by tens of millions of people has found that three quarters directly leak either private information or users' unique identifiers to third-party tracking sites. The study, co-authored ...
Internet
Jun 2, 2011
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The gloves are off between a pair of Old and New Media heavyweights. Bill Keller, executive editor of the venerable New York Times, and Arianna Huffington, founder of brash newcomer The Huffington Post, exchanged blows on ...
Business
Mar 11, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts have found a remarkable effect while studying ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 8, 2010
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Google, which has had strained relations with some US newspaper publishers, announced on Tuesday it was donating five million dollars to encourage innovation in digital journalism.
Internet
Oct 26, 2010
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