Researchers at Aarhus University have described one of the cell's key enzymes, the calcium pump, in its decisive moment—a so-called transition state. These findings provide a very detailed picture of how one of the most ...
Biochemistry
May 9, 2016
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For the purpose of blood analyses and industrial tests, it is often necessary to measure the concentration of specific ions. At present, the relevant devices are large and cannot be produced at low costs. A new dry electrode ...
Materials Science
Mar 15, 2016
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A variety of animals are able to sense and react to electric fields, and living human cells will move along an electric field, for example in wound healing. Now a team lead by Min Zhao at the UC Davis Institute for Regenerative ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 13, 2015
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Ask a roomful of people to take out their phones, and you're bound to see several with cracked screens.
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 29, 2015
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(Phys.org)—One of the mysteries in biology is how cells can selectively diffuse potassium across a membrane. Biological systems rely on a delicate balance between these potassium and sodium ion concentrations in the surrounding ...
Chemical engineers and biologists at MIT have found a simple way to make yeast produce more ethanol from sugars: Spike the mixture they're growing on with two common chemicals. Adding potassium and an acidity-reducing compound ...
Biotechnology
Jul 13, 2015
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Scientists from the Vaziri lab at the Vienna Biocenter, together with colleagues at the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics at the University of Chicago, have developed a method using infrared spectroscopy and atomistic modeling ...
Biochemistry
May 18, 2015
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Scientists from Jülich, Grenoble, Frankfurt and Moscow uncovered the atomic structure of KR2, a light-driven transporter for sodium ions which had only recently been discovered. Based on the structural information the team ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 10, 2015
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New research shows that a burst of evolutionary innovation in the genes responsible for electrical communication among nerve cells in our brains occurred over 600 million years ago in a common ancestor of humans and the sea ...
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 16, 2015
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(Phys.org) —The Fukushima reactor disaster has been the most recent incident to introduce the public to the concept of "cesium 137". In the journal Angewandte Chemie, Korean researchers have now introduced a new vanadosilicate ...
Materials Science
May 23, 2014
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