The Biofactory, a leading innovator in incubating biomedical and life sciences related technologies, introduced today its ColoQuik line of label-free kits for the rapid colorimetric detection of protein-DNA interactions in ...
Biotechnology
Nov 14, 2012
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Researchers have shown for the first time that the protein fortilin promotes growth of cancer cells by binding to and rendering inert protein p53, a known tumor suppressor. This finding by researchers at the University of ...
Biochemistry
Sep 16, 2011
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The protein p53 plays an essential role in the prevention of cancer by initiating the controlled death of a cell with damaged genes which is in danger to transform into a cancerous cell. The heat shock protein Hsp90, in turn, ...
Biotechnology
Sep 7, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new biophysical and biochemical study may lead to better understanding of how structural flexibility controls the interaction of a protein that is closely involved with cancer, aging and other chronic diseases ...
Biochemistry
Apr 13, 2011
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Protein aggregation, generally associated with Alzheimer's and mad cow disease, turns out to play a significant role in cancer. In a paper published in Nature Chemical Biology, Frederic Rousseau and Joost Schymkowitz of VIB, ...
Biochemistry
Mar 29, 2011
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Like a bounty hunter returning escapees to custody, a cancer-fighting gene converts organ cells that change into highly mobile stem cells back to their original, stationary state, researchers report online at Nature Cell ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 25, 2011
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For a long time a relationship between infertility and chemotherapeutic agents has been assumed. Now, the mechanism has been elucidated. Mainly women are affected because the quality control in the oocytes is different from ...
Biochemistry
Feb 22, 2011
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To protect the health of future generations, body keeps a careful watch on its precious and limited supply of eggs. That's done through a key quality control process in oocytes (the immature eggs), which ensures elimination ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 17, 2011
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In studies conducted on the fruit fly, researchers at IRB Barcelona (Spain) headed by ICREA Professor Marco Milan have revealed that organs have the molecular mechanisms to control their proportions. In this process the protein ...
Biotechnology
Dec 15, 2010
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Investigators believe they have identified the founding member of a chemical family they hope will lead to a new class of cancer drugs, the first designed specifically against a childhood tumor, according to research led ...
Biochemistry
Mar 29, 2010
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