Using an approach based on CRISPR proteins, MIT researchers have developed a new way to precisely control the amount of a particular protein that is produced in mammalian cells.
Biotechnology
Nov 1, 2022
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Microorganisms, such as baker's yeast, can be used as cell factories to produce different chemicals and proteins, such as commonly used pharmaceuticals as insulin. By modifying the cell factories researchers are trying to ...
Biotechnology
Jun 13, 2022
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden show how a molecule that they have identified stimulates the formation of new insulin-producing cells in zebrafish and mammalian tissue, through a newly described mechanism for ...
Biochemistry
Jun 13, 2022
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A protein called CDC7, long thought to play an essential role early in the cell division process, is in fact replaceable by another protein called CDK1, according to a study by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine and ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 4, 2022
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Cells use RNA as a versatile tool to regulate the activity of their genes. Small snippets of RNA can fine-tune how much protein is produced from various genes; some small RNAs can shut genes off altogether. An enzyme called ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 17, 2022
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Membranes are crucial to our cells. Every cell in your body is enclosed by one. And each of those cells contains specialized compartments, or organelles, which are also enclosed by membranes.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 25, 2022
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Aging leads to a decline in cellular fitness and loss of optimal protein function. Many age-related ailments, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, are caused by protein aggregation, a result of errors in protein ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Jan 19, 2022
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For the first time, researchers have constructed a detailed 3D structure of human SAGA, a 20-piece molecular machine crucial to human life.
Molecular & Computational biology
Nov 23, 2021
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Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have uncovered a unique mechanism where two transcription factors stabilize each other's binding to DNA in fission yeast. They found that Atf1 and Rst2 help each other stably ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Sep 13, 2021
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New research from North Carolina State University demonstrates that genes are capable of identifying and responding to coded information in light signals, as well as filtering out some signals entirely. The study shows how ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 31, 2021
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