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Deactivating a cancer growth promoter

"This kind of information provides a target for the production of drugs against cancer," said Dr. Bert O'Malley, chair of molecular and cellular biology at BCM. "One can already fi...

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Dividing Cells Find Their Middle by Following Protein Contour Map

Self-organization keeps schools of fish, flocks of birds and colonies of termites in sync. It's also, according to new research, the way cells regulate the final stage of cell division. Scientist...

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New insight into the mechanisms of voltage sensing and transduction in biological processes

In a new paper published in The Journal of Physiology, Murata and Okamura, from the Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, examine a voltage-sensitive phosphatase that converts an electrical to...

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Link identified between age, cardiovascular disease

An understanding of this mechanism, scientists say, provides an important new target for both drugs and dietary changes that might help prevent or treat atherosclerosis and heart disease. This is a le...

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Researchers devise new tools to help pinpoint treatments for heart failure

Scientists studying heart cells have devised a new way to visualize and quantify the rise and fall in the activity of a key enzyme linked to heart failure, offering them a window to the inner workings...

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Transcription factor protein's role in cell death, neurodegeneration and schizophrenia

The neuron is a particular type of cell in the brain that is responsible for, among other tasks, learning and memory, cognitive function, and other higher order physiologies. The neuronal cell exhibit...

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Genes hunters tracking the tumour

What is the best strategy to determine the specific function of a gene? Certainly a good idea is to eliminate the gene and see what kind of effects this move has on the whole organism. With this goal ...

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’Computer-chemistry’ yields new insight into a puzzle of cell division

Duke University biochemists aided by Duke computer scientists and computational chemists have identified the likely way two key enzymes dock in an intricate three-dimensional puzzle-fit to ...

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Vanadium appears to play role in speeding recovery from infections

Dietary supplements containing vanadium are used by body builders to help beef up muscles and by some diabetic people to control blood sugar. New research now suggests the naturally occu...

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New regulators of apoptosis and chemoresistance identified

Using targeted RNA interference, or RNAi libraries, researchers at Harvard Medical School describe the first large-scale classification of kinase and phosphatase gene families on the basi...

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Researchers Unlock Mechanism Creating Jigsaw Puzzle-Like Plant Cells

Chemical pathways allow plant cells to develop in interlocking patterns, adding strength to leaves Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have unlocked the mol...

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UCSD-Salk team show protein’s gene-silencing role in development of nervous system

The first evidence that a group of proteins called phosphatases play a key role in the development of the nervous system, has been shown in fruit flies and mice by researchers at the Univ...

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New theory chalenges current view of how brain stores long-term memory

How do you remember your own name? Is it possible ever to forget it? The memory trace, or engram, "feels" like it is stored permanently in the brain and it will never be forgotten. ...

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