Most cells of humans, animals, plants and fungi contain two sets of chromosomes with specific chromosome numbers—for example, in humans there are two sets of 23 chromosomes as carriers of genetic information. However, polyploid ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 9, 2022
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A multi-enzyme platform is developed for sequence-unconstrained traceless protein synthesis and modification with either synthetic peptides or recombinant proteins, according to a new study out of Chinese Academy of Sciences ...
Biochemistry
Oct 22, 2021
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Research groups from the University of Groningen have revealed a novel mechanism of ribosome dimerization in the bacterium Lactococcus lactis using cryo-electron microscopy. As this dimerization renders ribosomes more resistant ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 28, 2017
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Lack of adequate sleep can do more than just make you tired. It can short-circuit your system and interfere with a fundamental cellular process that drives physical growth, physiological adaptation and even brain activity, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 30, 2015
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Researchers at Columbia University have made a significant step toward visualizing complex protein metabolism in living systems with high resolution and minimum disturbance, a longstanding goal in the scientific community. ...
Biochemistry
Feb 4, 2015
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Scientists at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research have identified a novel and unexpected regulatory activity of RNA at the edge of inactive chromosomal regions. In their publication in Nature Structural ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 8, 2013
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Andrew Hansen grows wheat, barley, canola, and oats on his farm at Coomandook in South Australia, where his family has farmed the land for more than 60 years. But now the family's way of life is threatened.
Biotechnology
Jul 18, 2013
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Researchers at CEA, Joseph Fourier University and CNRS have developed a new approach combining protein crystallography and biomimetic chemistry for observing they key steps of a process essential to life: oxygen activation. ...
Biochemistry
Oct 21, 2010
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