Successful drug development has a significant impact on people's quality of life worldwide. Being able to track how molecules get into target cells, and observing what they do when they are inside, is key to identifying the ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 18, 2020
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How much can society gain by cutting consumption of materials—via smarter use, using less, or recycling materials? A new report from the International Resource Panel for the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) says ...
Environment
Nov 18, 2020
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Researchers can now more accurately and precisely target specific proteins in yeast, mammalian cells and mice to study how knocking down specific protein traits can influence physical manifestation in a cell or organism.
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 11, 2020
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Our biological processes rely on a system of communications—cellular signals—that set off chain reactions in and between target cells to produce a response. The first step in these often complex communications is the ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 29, 2020
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Enzymes enable biochemical reactions that would otherwise not take place on their own. In nature, it is mostly proteins that function as enzymes. However, other molecules can also perform enzymatic reactions—for example ...
Biotechnology
Oct 28, 2020
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More than half of the world's population carries the bacterium Helicobacter pylori in their stomach mucosa. It often causes no problems throughout life, but sometimes it can cause inflammation, and in some cases, it can even ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 15, 2020
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A research team led by Nagoya University scientists in Japan has developed an approach that can quickly find synthetic proteins that specifically bind to important targets, such as components of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The ...
Biochemistry
Oct 7, 2020
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Proteins transduce information and signals within the human body by changes in their structures. For example, hormones binding to their target proteins cause a structural change which in turn opens new binding sites for other ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Oct 6, 2020
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Researchers from Bochum, Düsseldorf and Dortmund have gained new insights into how the Stripak signal-protein complex works. They studied the complex, which occurs in all organisms with a cell nucleus, in the fungus Sordaria ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 6, 2020
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Fences are one of humanity's most frequent landscape alterations, with their combined length exceeding even that of roads by an order of magnitude. Despite their ubiquity, they have received far less research scrutiny than ...
Ecology
Sep 30, 2020
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