A new "tree of life" has been constructed by researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech for the gamma-proteobacteria, a large group of medically and scientifically important bacteria that ...
Biotechnology
May 17, 2010
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Researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered and characterized a general mechanism that controls transcription elongation in bacteria. The mechanism, described in the April 23 issue of Science, relies on physical ...
Biotechnology
Apr 22, 2010
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The organelles of photosynthesis—the chloroplasts - have their own DNA, messenger RNA and ribosomes for forming proteins. Max Planck scientists have now discovered how to regulate the formation of proteins in the chloroplasts. ...
Biotechnology
Mar 30, 2010
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In physical, as in financial growth, it's not what you make but what you keep that counts, USC marine biologists believe.
Biotechnology
Mar 18, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Weill Cornell's Scott Blanchard has developed technology that can observe drug activity in a solitary molecule while in motion. The development may lead to newer, safer drug therapies.
Biochemistry
Feb 17, 2010
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Johns Hopkins scientists believe they may have figured out how genetic snippets called microRNAs are able to shut down the production of some proteins.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 1, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When ribosomes produce protein in all living cells, they do so through a chemical reaction that happens so fast that scientists have been puzzled. Using large quantum mechanical calculations of the reaction ...
Biochemistry
Jan 13, 2010
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December 9, 2009 -Even small errors made by cells during protein production can have profound disease effects, and nature has developed ways to uncover these mistakes and correct them. Though in the case of one essential ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 9, 2009
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Every high school biology student learns the basics of how genes are expressed: DNA, the cell’s master information keeper, is copied into messenger RNA, which carries protein-building instructions to the ribosome, the part ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 12, 2009
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Ever since the previously unknown SARS virus emerged from southern China in 2003, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston virologists have focused on finding the source of the pathogen's virulence — its ability ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 29, 2009
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