Despite decades of study, exactly how herpesviruses invade our cells remains something of a mystery. Now researchers studying one herpesvirus, the varicella zoster virus (VZV) that causes chicken pox, may have found an important ...
Biochemistry
Aug 19, 2020
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A research team led by Daniel Lietha has just published in The EMBO Journal the mechanistic details of the activation of the focal adhesion kinase (FAK) on lipid membranes. Lietha started this research during his work at ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 11, 2020
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All life depends on a genome, which acts as an instruction manual for building all the products essential for development and survival. But knowing which of these individual instructions—or genes—need to be read, and ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 30, 2020
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Gluten is enemy No. 1 for those with celiac disease, and it's hard to avoid. Episodes of this chronic autoimmune illness can be triggered by ingesting gluten, a key protein in wheat and some other grains. Researchers have ...
Other
Apr 15, 2020
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Cells depend on signaling to regulate most life processes, including cell growth and differentiation, immune response and reactions to various stresses.
Molecular & Computational biology
Mar 4, 2020
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It turns out the coiled snakes often used to symbolize medical knowledge are more than apt. They also mimic a key to life itself.
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 3, 2020
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Blood clots have long been implicated in heart attacks and strokes, together accounting for almost half of deaths annually in the United States. While the role of one key protein in the process, called von Willebrand factor, ...
General Physics
Nov 19, 2019
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Scientists from the UNC School of Medicine and Stanford University have uncovered what may be a fundamental biological mechanism that helps organisms adapt to rapid changes to nutrients in their environments.
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 5, 2019
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Scientists have for the first time seen how the MYC protein, which plays a central role in cancer, binds to a key protein and controls important functions in the cell. The study, published in Nature Structural and Molecular ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 4, 2019
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Scientists have created the first completely artificial protein switch that can work inside living cells to modify—or even commandeer—the cell's complex internal circuitry.
Biochemistry
Jul 24, 2019
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