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Gene keeps neural cells on correct developmental path

..., such as small cell lung cancer, which mistakenly make neuronal proteins, or neurological syndromes, wher... a trigger tells embryonic stem cells it's time to make a neuron," Mandel said. The cell then triggers the expression of an ensemble of genes that coordinat...

Designing vaccines by computer

...to identify it as having fragments that that could make good vaccines. This approach has the potential to significantly reduce the number of proteins that we need to experimentally test to develop new vaccines to protect both humans and economically important livestock." Professor Nigel Brown, BBSRC Dire...

Successful Test Of Single Molecule Switch Opens The Door To Biomolecular Electronics

...ocesses ?the ions in the solution are necessary to make the process happen. Yet almost every ‘molecular el...n solved by using the scanning probe microscope to make and measure single-molecule contacts, with molecules designed to bond at their ends with a surface a...

Python a 'hearty' eater

...e of the journal Nature, the snake's eating habits make it a prime model of cardiovascular fitness. The heart has the amazing ability to adapt to altered physiological requirements, and, according to the authors, this cold-blooded snake may provide insights into how remodeling of the heart occurs in adapt...

New strategies to reduce hospital-aquired infections

...ospital water for drinking, bathing, showering, to make ice cubes or to rinse medical equipment is increasingly being recognized as a significant source of microbes that may contribute to many of these life-threatening infections. Infection control practitioners, scientists and epidemiologists convened t...

Distributed Basic Local Alignment Search Toolkit (W.ND-BLAST)

...ospital water for drinking, bathing, showering, to make ice cubes or to rinse medical equipment is increasingly being recognized as a significant source of microbes that may contribute to many of these life-threatening infections. Infection control practitioners, scientists and epidemiologists convened t...

Microscopes at microscopic size

...efine the fluorescent probe technology and also to make the analysis of biological samples more sophistica...al world challenges. Bochips have the potential to make a real difference in medical diagnostics and drug development." The research is being carried out a...

Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive

...early the mussels have evolved with the ability to make this protein so they can cling to rocks despite wa... able to add these amino acids to soy protein, and make it work like a mussel-protein adhesive. Then they began to develop other strong and water-resistant ...

A new way to share models of biological systems

...public domain are freely available for everyone to make the most of them." The BioModels database is freely available at www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels. ...

To Stop Evolution: New Way Of Fighting Antibiotic Resistance Demonstrated By Scripps Scientists

...utations, humans and other mammals have evolved to make as few as possible. The machinery inside our cells..."polymerase" enzymes that replicate our DNA rarely make mistakes. Even when they do, we have multiple, redundant repair and proofreading mechanisms that wou...

Hydrogen and methane provide raw energy for life at 'Lost City'

...gases produced at Lost City and the organisms that make their living off them. Both are so different from so-called black-smoker hydrothermal vents that they may provide a whole new avenue for looking for the earliest life on Earth and for signs of life on other planets, according to Deborah Kelley, Unive...

Making Sure Sacred Sheep Don't Become Extinct

...animal germplasm -- mainly semen and embryos -- to make sure there's enough genetic material to reintroduc... pay premium prices for it. Navajo use the wool to make blankets. But for industrial wool manufacturers, it has low value. Blackburn has 1,200 semen sample...

15-year hunt finds cause of pseudothalidomide syndrome

...ome of the techniques they used -- such as that to make many copies of DNA from a small sample -- have been around in some form for more than a decade. But others are much more recent developments. For example, the researchers found important genetic changes in part by comparing different species' genetic...

Future diabetes drugs may target new protein interaction

...nd to each other, and without sirtuin1, PGC1 can't make glucose." A current diabetes-fighting drug, metfo...ecause both proteins are required for the liver to make sugar, targeting sirtuin1 in a very specific way might help control sugar production in people with ...

PHACCS, an online tool for estimating the structure and diversity of uncultured viral communities using metagenomic information

...nd to each other, and without sirtuin1, PGC1 can't make glucose." A current diabetes-fighting drug, metfo...ecause both proteins are required for the liver to make sugar, targeting sirtuin1 in a very specific way might help control sugar production in people with ...

Computational verification of protein-protein interactions by orthologous co-expression

...nd to each other, and without sirtuin1, PGC1 can't make glucose." A current diabetes-fighting drug, metfo...ecause both proteins are required for the liver to make sugar, targeting sirtuin1 in a very specific way might help control sugar production in people with ...

Prescription Drug Patches Gaining Ground, Tackling New Therapies

...na, hypertension and HRT, the technology is set to make further inroads as transdermal patches for a host of new conditions wind their way through the development and clinical trial process. Growth in demand for prescription drug patches is being driven by several factors ?factors with strong demographic...

Eliminate Data Analysis Bottlenecks in Drug Discovery

...nd to each other, and without sirtuin1, PGC1 can't make glucose." A current diabetes-fighting drug, metfo...ecause both proteins are required for the liver to make sugar, targeting sirtuin1 in a very specific way might help control sugar production in people with ...

Fox Chase study shows that weakened T-cell receptor signals change T-cell lineage

...complex and enable these distinct types of T cells make unique contributions to our ability to resist dise...nd stress," Wiest said. "Laboratory mice unable to make delta-gamma T cells heal skin injuries more slowly. "Immune surveillance, the body mechanism that d...

Where bacteria get their genes

...ued that drawing traditional family trees does not make sense for bacteria, because their genomes represen... only," Ochman said. "But these are the genes that make bacteria different from each other." Most commonly, genes are transmitted by bacteriophages, viruse...

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