Supercomputers to focus brains on AIDS dilemma
...ch, helping the company's scientists make sense of puzzling data of their own: seemingly similar inhibitors were binding to different parts of the enzyme's active site region. "With the help of our simulations, the Merck scientists were able to understand this and then go on to prove experimentally the effect...UCSD research reveals mechanism involved with type of fatal epilepsy
...no long-term treatment or cure for the disease. A puzzling aspect of the disease is the accumulation of starch-/glycogen-like granules in most tissues of Lafora disease patients. Thus, researchers have long thought that a defect in glycogen metabolism is intimately linked to the disease. Recessive mutations ......ent. In fact, PCD is a well-researched, yet still puzzling phenomenon that has been described in virtually all cell types, both plant and animal. PCD plays a critical role in many biological processes including immune system function, embryonic development and elimination of defective cells. When PCD malfunc...