(Phys.org)—Calpain, a calcium-regulated enzyme, is essential to a host of cellular processes, but can cause severe problems in its overactivated state. It has been implicated as a factor in muscular dystrophy, AIDS, Alzheimer's ...
Biochemistry
Dec 27, 2012
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Chromatin remodeling—the packaging and unpackaging of genomic DNA and its associated proteins—regulates a host of fundamental cellular processes including gene transcription, DNA repair, programmed cell death as well ...
Biochemistry
Nov 29, 2012
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Our planet was revolving on its axis, turning night into day every 24 hours, for 4.5 billion years - long before any form of life existed here. About a billion years later, the very first simple bacterial cells came into ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 2, 2012
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A collaboration between Lehigh University physicists and University of Miami biologists addresses an important fundamental question in basic cell biology: How do living cells figure out when and where to grow?
Cell & Microbiology
May 18, 2012
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Cambridge researchers have developed a new technique for measuring and mapping gene and cell activity through fluorescence in living plant tissue.
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 5, 2012
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Researchers test a pre-emptive anti-viral treatment on a common virus known to cause respiratory infections.
Plasma Physics
Dec 16, 2011
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Researchers have built a map that shows how thousands of proteins in a fruit fly cell communicate with each other . This is the largest and most detailed protein interaction map of a multicellular organism, demonstrating ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 27, 2011
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Could controlling cell-membrane fat play a key role in turning off disease?
Biochemistry
Oct 9, 2011
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A University of Alberta-led research team has dramatically expanded the palette of fluorescent highlighters that can be used to track the movement of messengers inside of single cells.
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 8, 2011
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Reaching a new threshold in underwater medical studies, the Office of Naval Research (ONR), today announced a novel capability for examining how cells work at pressures far below the sea surface.
Engineering
Aug 10, 2011
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