RNA interference (RNAi) is a fascinating biological process in worms, plants, fungi, and metazoans that has been a valuable tool for studying gene function and as therapeutics.
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 29, 2024
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Bread wheat is one of the most important staple crops for millions of people and is apparently the largest cultivated and traded cereal worldwide. Bread wheat is a hexaploid species with three subgenomes (2n = 6x = 42, AABBDD) ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Apr 23, 2024
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G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) play a crucial role in cell signal transduction and comprise the largest drug target protein family. Despite recent breakthroughs in structural and pharmacological studies of these receptors, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 20, 2022
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As mammals, we have very sensitive hearing, thanks to a process known as cochlear amplification. This amplification is down to sensory cells in the inner ear called outer hair cells (OHCs), and it is thought to depend on ...
Biotechnology
Jan 6, 2022
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A cell is composed of numerous organelles, each with a unique role that helps contribute to its overall functionality. The lysosome is an organelle that contains digestive enzymes and functions as a molecular garbage disposal ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 25, 2021
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Metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGlus), which belong to class C G-protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) family, play key roles in modulating neuronal excitability and synaptic transmission in the central nervous system. The mGlus ...
Biotechnology
Jun 17, 2021
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Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore and Columbia University in the U.S. have solved how Wnt proteins, which play a fundamental role in cell proliferation and differentiation, hitch a ride to travel from ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 12, 2021
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A research group from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the University of Valencia (UV), in coordination with the National Center for Biotechnology (CNB) of the CSIC, has studied the role of the interactions ...
Biochemistry
Nov 30, 2020
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Before the days of rote texting and email, if you wanted to communicate with a friend you might have personalized and assembled a physical letter. Similarly, the individual cells in our bodies communicate with each other ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jul 20, 2020
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For the first time, researchers in the lab of CSHL Professor Hiro Furukawa have been able to track each atom in the NMDA receptor, an important brain protein, as it transmits or inhibits neural signals. Critical for brain ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 30, 2020
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