Researchers at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) and the University of Málaga (UMA) have discovered a new function in the BAG4 plant protein. In the study, they prove that this protein takes part in the regulation ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 26, 2019
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One of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease is the presence of neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. These tangles, made of tau proteins, impair neurons' ability to function normally and can cause the cells to die.
Biochemistry
May 27, 2022
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For the first time, a team of researchers at Stanford University and UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography has uncovered a direct genetic link between fluorescence and color in sea anemones—those soft and tentacled ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 11, 2024
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Many amphibians and fish are able to change their color in order to better adapt to their environment. Munich-based scientists have now investigated the molecular mechanisms in the cytoskeleton necessary for this and revealed ...
Biotechnology
Feb 12, 2020
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Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) researchers Alfonso Valencia, Director of the Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme and David de Juan, jointly with Florencio Pazos, from the Spanish National Centre ...
Biotechnology
Mar 5, 2013
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While the coronavirus continues to infect people around the world, researchers at the University of Missouri have identified a specific protein inside the human body that plays a critical role in how the virus spreads from ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 1, 2023
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When proteins misfold, accumulate and clump around insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, they kill cells. Now, researchers, including University of Michigan biophysicists, have obtained a structural snapshot of these proteins ...
Bio & Medicine
Dec 6, 2017
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With new advanced techniques developed by the Copenhagen Center for Glycomics at the University of Copenhagen it is possible to study cells in greater detail than ever before. The findings have just been published in the ...
Biochemistry
Aug 14, 2014
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Researchers have identified the protein mechanism that senses bicarbonate fluctuations and adjusts blood pH levels.
Biochemistry
Dec 22, 2009
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A drop in oxygen levels, even when temporary, can be critical to brain cells. This explains why the brain is equipped with oxygen sensors. In a study published in Current Biology, researchers from Japan and the United States ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 30, 2022
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