Life & Chemistry

Life & Chemistry

Protein Interactions in MAP Kinase Signaling Explored

The paper, “Mapping Dynamic Protein Interactions in the MAP Kinase Signaling Using Live-Cell Fluorescence Fluctuation Spectroscopy and Imaging,” was posted to…

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Future Diagnostics Powered by Biological Physics Research

Professor Höök, who for the past three years has been Professor of Nanoscience for Biophysics at Lund University, is just one in a series of recruitments which…

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Molecular code broken for drug industry's pet proteins

Membrane proteins are also necessary for cells to recognize each other in the body and for a nervous system, for example, to be formed. Researchers at…

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Sperm’s immune-protection properties could provide link to how cancers spread

The new research, currently available online in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, analysed these markers which are believed to tell the female immune system…

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Turning Crude Oil Into Gas: New Insights from Calgary Scientists

An international team that includes University of Calgary scientists has shown how crude oil in oil deposits around the world – including in Alberta’s oil…

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Innovative Disease-Resistant Wheat Developed by CSIRO Team

Pioneered by CSIRO researchers, in collaboration with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and Sydney University, the research…

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Unlocking Cellular Switches: Timing and Frequency Insights

Cellular processes, such as when to multiply, are often regulated by switches that control the frequency and timing of interactions between proteins. North…

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Reprogrammed Stem Cells Repair Muscle in Mice with DMD

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a hereditary disease caused by a mutation in the gene that codes for a muscle protein called dystrophin. Dystrophin is a…

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From Nature's nanolaboratory

Imagine a packaging material that kills bacteria and keeps food longer in good condition. Or a disposable duvet cover that keeps infection away from you when…

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Freshwater Fish Use Urine Pheromones to Compete for Mates

Animal behaviourists have known for some time that the urine of freshwater fish is a vehicle for reproductive hormones that act in the water as pheromones,…

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Genetic Differences Impact Aging Rates in Wildlife

Evidence for the existence of such genetic variation for aging rates—a central tenet in the evolutionary theory that explains why animals would show…

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Molecular code broken for drug industry's pet proteins

Membrane proteins are also necessary for cells to recognize each other in the body and for a nervous system, for example, to be formed. Researchers at…

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New Bio-Exploration Model Emerges in Central Asia

The Global Institute for Bio-Exploration, a joint initiative of the University of Illinois and Rutgers University, has become a model of sustainable,…

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Pacific Salmon: Aging Gracefully Through Stored Energy

Pacific salmon are noted for not feeding during their breeding period, relying instead on stored energy reserves and for their rapid senescence – the…

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Loss of Long-Established Genes Drives Human Evolution Insights

A group of scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz led by Dr. David Haussler has investigated this less-studied idea, carrying out the first…

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Scientists find how bacteria in cows milk may cause Crohn's disease

Crohn's is a condition that affects one in 800 people in the UK and causes chronic intestinal inflammation, leading to pain, bleeding and diarrhoea.The team…

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