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Protein folding: Building a strong foundation

...Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, associate professor of biochemistry and cell biology and of chemistry. She said the fi... bioengineering at Rice and associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Baylor College of Medicine. Ma's group, which mainly focuses on multi-scale...

Psst! Coffee drinkers: Fruit flies have something to tell you about caffeine

...in the caffeine response and better understand the biochemistry behind caffeine-induced behavior in other organisms, namely humans. ...

Advance helps explain stem cell behavior

...am," said Michael Gross, an assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics at OSU. "In a way that's what we're...ment are understood in a broad sense, the detailed biochemistry that underlies and controls these processes is still poorly defined. The overall process appears to ...

Fruit fly aggression studies have relevance to humans, animals

...mselves may not be very scary, but their genes and biochemistry have more in common with those of humans than the casual observer might suspect, and geneticists can subject flies to experiments that simply can't be done on higher organisms. To measure aggression, the researchers starved male flies for an hour an...

Search on for treatment of slow-healing wounds

...neering graduate from Miles City, and Pat Secor, a biochemistry graduate from Bozeman, did that undergraduate research. Swogger is headed to Oregon State University for a Ph.D. Secor is pursuing a Ph.D. at MSU. One of the center's strengths is its unique interdisciplinary team that includes researchers from eng...

Jefferson scientists find aging gene also protects against prostate cancer development

...aboratory Medicine and professor of urology and of biochemistry at the University of Rochester. Dr. Pestell and his co-workers also found a single amino acid within the androgen receptor that reacts with SIRT1’s enzymatic activity and proved in the laboratory that it was key to its cancer-halting effect. Th...

UNC scientists solve mystery of how largest cellular motor protein powers movement

...d Dr. Nikolay V. Dokholyan, assistant professor of biochemistry and biophysics in the UNC School of Medicine. Dokholyan said the dynein puzzle is similar to figuring out how auto engines make cars move. “You have an engine up front that burns gas, but we didn’t know how the wheels are made to move.? Dr. T...

Researchers make progress in studying genetic traits of India-born populations

...searchers, including Pragna I. Patel, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), and Noah Rosenberg, assistant professor in the department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan, have conducted genetic analysis of India-b...

Jefferson researchers uncover new way nature turns genes on and off

... journal Cell, Alexander Mazo, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Jefferson Medical College, Svetlana Petruk, Ph.D., and their co-authors focused on pieces of genetic material called non-coding (nc)RNAs. About two-thirds of the human genome is converted into such RNAs (the better known mess...

Eminent inventor of DNA fingerprinting gains new recognition

...reedom of the City of Leicester. Sir Alec studied biochemistry and received his PhD in 1975 at Oxford University. He then joined the laboratory of Piet Borst for a post-doctoral research at the Department of Medical Enzymology and Molecular Biology at the University of Amsterdam. In 1977, he joined the Departmen...

University of Minnesota researchers take new look at cellular suicide

...led to the discovery by their previous work on the biochemistry of skin cancer. They had previously found that various forms of an enzyme known as JNK played a role in the development of the cancer. Working with cells from the skin of mice, they have now discovered that after they expose cells to damaging amounts...

Methane-belching bugs inspire a new theory of the origin of life on Earth

...ust such an environment, and this microbe's unique biochemistry may harbor the molecular fossil of the first metabolism on Earth. While other microbes make methane from carbon monoxide, this particular species (one "Methanosarcina acetivorans") also produces acetate--better known as vinegar. Ferry and House, in ...

Movie spies on malaria parasite's sneaky behavior

...there are no gaps," said Amino, now a professor of biochemistry at Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The scientists also found that while the parasites are physically hidden inside the merosome, they further protect themselves with a biochemical cloaking device. They prevent the dying liver cell from bro...

UCSD researchers develop 'smart petri dish'

..." says Michael Sailor, a professor of chemistry at biochemistry at UCSD who headed the research team. "Since the liver is the organ that cleans up the blood, liver cells are particularly susceptible when a toxin is introduced to the body. Pharmaceutical companies want to know early on the effect a drug has on the...

Adult stem cell research at UB targets damaged hearts

...ded by Te-Chung Lee, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and an investigator with the cardiovascular research center. Lee and colleagues will use the swine model to investigate whether transplanting the model's own bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (MSC...

Think fast! Rice undergrad unlocks nerve speed secret

...ies ?including one spearheaded by an undergraduate biochemistry student at Rice University and published online to...pal researcher James McNew, assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biology. SNAREs are a key player in membrane fusion. They oversee the merger of the cell'...

Ready, set, mutate?and may the best microbe win

...d researcher Yousif Shamoo, associate professor of biochemistry and cell biology. "This suggests that very few molecular pathways are available for a specific molecular response, and it points to the intriguing possibility of developing a system to predict the specific mutations that pathogens will use in order t...

Structure determined for p53 tumor suppressor protein as bound to DNA for anti-cancer activity

...ite having learned a good deal about the protein's biochemistry over the years, scientists have been unable to "see" the protein ?using the tools of structural biology ?bound to DNA in its naturally occurring form. This naturally occurring form contains a pairing of two p53 proteins, called a dimer, that then bin...

'Sticky' mice lead to discovery of new cause of neurodegenerative disease

...h Schimmel, whose research has concentrated on the biochemistry of synthetases. Molecular studies by Schimmel and his colleagues revealed that the defect in the sti mutant mouse occurred in a region of the synthetase enzyme that "edits" the loading of the correct amino acid, alanine, onto its carrier tRNA. Thi...

Ammonia-loving archaea win landslide majority

...fferent techniques ranging from molecular biology, biochemistry to metagenomics. Using a novel sequencing techniqu...tools, Stephan C. Schuster, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State, and his co-workers accurately measured the quantities of active...

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