Chemists at the California Institute of Technology have managed, for the first time, to simulate the biological function of a channel called the Sec translocon, which allows specific proteins to pass through membranes. The ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 18, 2012
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(Phys.org)—Understanding why proteins interact with certain specific molecules and not with the myriad others in their environment is a major goal of molecular biology. Now, in a series of recent papers, researchers describe ...
Biochemistry
Oct 2, 2012
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(Phys.org)—The human body is proficient at making collagen. And human laboratories are getting better at it all the time.
Biochemistry
Sep 25, 2012
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Transcription factors are proteins that bind to DNA to promote or suppress protein production. Since almost all diseases involve disruption of the protein-production process, transcription factors are promising biological ...
Biotechnology
Sep 11, 2012
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Scientists from the University of Aberdeen's Marine Biodiscovery Centre and the University of St Andrews today presented their work on the components of a new type of computer chip created using molecules from a sea squirt ...
Materials Science
Sep 10, 2012
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The threads of an evolutionary mystery that dates to the birth of molecular biology are beginning to unravel, thanks to a new investigation by computational bioengineers at Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson ...
Biotechnology
Aug 30, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- A simple new improvement to an essential microscope component could greatly improve imaging for researchers who study the very small, from cells to computer chips.
Nanophysics
Jul 6, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- Visualize trying to finish a jigsaw puzzle where each individual piece keeps changing shape. If that sounds like an impossible task, imagine the vexing job scientists have faced in computer modeling of interactions ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 8, 2012
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Immediately after emerging from their underground nests on the lush beaches of eastern Florida, loggerhead sea turtles scramble into the sea and embark alone on a migration that takes them around the entire North Atlantic ...
Plants & Animals
May 15, 2012
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A study published in PLoS Computational Biology maps the development of life-sustaining chemistry to the history of early life. Researchers Rogier Braakman and Eric Smith of the Santa Fe Institute traced the six methods of ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 19, 2012
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