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MIT biologists solve vitamin puzzle

...ves to don't need it either, so he speculates that synthesizing B12 may enable the bacteria to withstand "challenges" made by the plants during the formation of the symbiotic relationship. More than 30 genes are involved in vitamin B12 synthesis, and "that's a lot to carry around if you don't need to make it,"...

Uniform language for describing genes of pathogenic and beneficial microbes

... it enables the entire community to participate in synthesizing a common understanding of how microbes associate with hosts. This is a tremendous open-source resource and a powerful way to advance our understanding of host-pathogen relationships.? Michelle Gwinn-Giglio, Staff Scientist at The Institute for Geno...

Study of protein folds offers insight into metabolic evolution

... interconversion of nucleotides. But they were not synthesizing them," Caetano-Anollés said. "We see that all the enzymes that were involved in purine synthesis, for example, were very recent. Since these first proteins benefited the formation of building blocks for the primitive RNA world, it makes a lot of sens...

Tissue engineered scaffolding allows reproduction of cartilage tissue

...lage cells to maintain their characteristics while synthesizing cartilage in the scaffold structure in vivo," notes study author Dr. Byoung-Hyun Min. "Cell-derived scaffolding may hold great promise for the future. A variety of applications are possible for the engineering of cartilage tissue as the shape and por...

Want to save polar bears? Follow the ice

...ction of the project. Following steps will include synthesizing available and subsequent data into the GIS platform, which can then be used to generate the trends and recommended conservation actions. Findings will be presented in a peer-reviewed journal, future international conferences, and presented to countri...

How to lose weight and not go hungry: HU researcher develops drug that mimics feeling of 'fullness'

...niversity researchers developed a novel method for synthesizing a peptide (a peptide is a compound linking two or more amino acids) which can serve as an analog to the naturally occurring aMSH hormone. They were able to demonstrate that their peptide, which they call BL-3020, displayed good metabolic stability to...

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