Chemists and molecular biologists have made an unexpected discovery in infection biology. The researchers can now show that two proteins that bind to one another slow down a chemical reaction central to the course of the ...
Biochemistry
Mar 3, 2017
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Currently, biologists who study the function of protein nanomachines isolate these complexes outside the cell in test tubes, and then apply in vitro techniques that allow them to observe their structure down to the atomic ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 27, 2017
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We can tell when plants need water: their leaves droop and they start to look dry. But what's happening on a molecular level?
Biotechnology
Nov 3, 2016
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Even though it's almost impossible to see, computational biophysicist Rommie Amaro is using the Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin to model the largest atomic ...
Biochemistry
Oct 27, 2016
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A paper recently published in the Journal of Molecular Biology shows how advances in molecular biology and computer science around the world soon may lead to a three-dimensional computer model of a cell, the fundamental unit ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 5, 2016
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It probably isn't surprising to read that pharmaceutical drugs don't always do what they're supposed to. Adverse side effects are a well-known phenomenon and something many of us will have experienced when taking medicines.
Biochemistry
Aug 25, 2016
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A team of scientists from the University of Alberta is examining compounds with anti-prion properties, which can alter the misfolding of proteins in rare but universally fatal prion diseases like Mad Cow and Creutzfeld-Jakob. ...
Biochemistry
Jun 29, 2016
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Combining two emerging large-scale technologies for the first time—multiplexed mass spectrometry and a mouse population with a high level of natural genetic diversity —researchers at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and The ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 15, 2016
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A team of researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Rowland Institute at Harvard University have used a specialized nanoprobe developed by the Harvard/Rowland investigators to directly measure levels of ...
Bio & Medicine
Jun 14, 2016
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In a new paper published in Nature Chemistry, Dr. Lingbing Kong in Oxford University's Department of Chemistry takes an in-depth look at capsular polysaccharides, or 'sugar armour' – the outermost layer of bacteria that ...
Biochemistry
Apr 20, 2016
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