Tumbleweeds or fibrils: Tau proteins need to choose
New simulations by Rice University scientists tell a tale of two taus and how they relate to neurological disease.
Biochemistry
Feb 3, 2020
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Collaborative conservation approach for endangered reef fish yields dramatic results
A new study from researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has documented a successful recovery effort among Nassau Grouper populations in the Cayman Islands thanks to ...
Ecology
Jan 6, 2020
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Sharing data links in networks of cars
Wi-Fi is coming to our cars. Ford Motor Co. has been equipping cars with Wi-Fi transmitters since 2010; according to an Agence France-Presse story last year, the company expects that by 2015, 80 percent of the cars it sells ...
Telecom
Jul 5, 2012
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Researchers describe molecular 'two-step' leading to protein clumps of Huntington's disease
In a paper published in the early online version of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine deconstruct the first steps in an intricate molecular dance that ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 8, 2009
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Researchers propose a new way to measure aging and disease risk with the protein aggregation clock
Could measuring protein clumps in our cells be a new way to find out our risk of getting age-related diseases? Professor Dorothee Dormann and Professor Edward Lemke of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), who are also ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 17, 2024
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Understanding how zwitterionic polymers can lead to safer drugs and disease prevention
Proteins are vital biomolecules responsible for performing various functions in the human body and are thus regarded as the workhorses of a cell. The primary structure of a protein is composed of different amino acids coming ...
Biochemistry
May 30, 2024
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Study uncovers the secret of long-lived stem cells
Nothing lives forever, but compared to other cells in the body, hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are remarkably long-lived. HSCs are blood-forming cells—they give rise to rapidly dividing progenitor cells, which in turn ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 30, 2024
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Oocytes outsmart toxic proteins to preserve long-term female fertility
Oocytes are immature egg cells that develop in almost all female mammals before birth. The propagation of future generations depends on this finite reserve of cells surviving for many years without incurring damage. In mice, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 20, 2024
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Researchers discover tissue-specific protection against protein aggregation
Researchers from the Babraham Institute, UK, and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) have identified a backup mechanism of protein quality control which prevents the toxic effects of protein aggregation ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Sep 14, 2023
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Protected sex: Study records grouper mating calls in marine managed areas
A couple of months each year, groupers (Epinephelidae) gather in the hundreds and even thousands to mate under the full moon. This concentrated nature and short duration of mating, however, renders these species susceptible ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 9, 2023
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