(PhysOrg.com) -- A Miller School-led research team has created a groundbreaking drug technology platform that enables the body to increase its protein levels, a novel invention that potentially could usher in treatment for ...
Biotechnology
Mar 25, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has generated a map over the effects of small drug-like molecules on PARP1 and other similar proteins in the body. This map may explain the mechanism ...
Biotechnology
Feb 20, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a new computational method allows researchers to identify which specific molecular mechanisms are altered by genetic mutations in proteins that lead to disease. And they can apply this ...
Biotechnology
Jan 19, 2012
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For years, science has generally considered the phosphorylation of proteins -- the insertion of a phosphorous group into a protein that turns it on or off -- as perhaps the factor regulating a range of cellular processes ...
Biochemistry
Dec 11, 2011
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine describe for the first time a key target of DNA damage checkpoint enzymes that must be chemically modified to enable stable maintenance of chromosome ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 23, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists of many varied backgrounds have been hard at work in recent years trying to figure out a way to control the intricate processes that go on in cells so as to allow them to manipulate them to do ...
Knowledge about the development of the nervous system is of the greatest importance for us to understand the function of the brain and brain disorders. Researchers at Uppsala University have examined the key step when genes ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 7, 2011
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A new generation of lighter, stronger plastics could be produced using an intricate chemical process devised by scientists.
Nanomaterials
Nov 7, 2011
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Scientists are reporting development of the first fast and reliable scientific method to determine the age and authenticity of priceless silk tapestries and other treasures -- such as Civil War General Phillip Sheridan's ...
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 12, 2011
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Making use of a new "super resolution" microscope that provides sharp images at extremely small scales, scientists have achieved unprecedented views of the immune system in action. The new tool, a stimulated emission depletion ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 13, 2011
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