News articles tagged with 'amino'
New model may help scientists better predict and prevent influenza outbreaks
— 30 Oct 2009 09:36 | HealthEach year, the influenza virus evolves. And each year, public health officials try to predict what the new strain will be and how it will affect the population in order to best combat... — full story
Could salt crusts be key ingredient for cooking up prebiotic molecules?
— 17 Sep 2009 14:54 | AstronomyGerman scientists investigating the complex chemical mixture thought to be present in the early Earth's oceans have found that amino acids can be 'cooked' into many other important... — full story
Argonne researchers develop method that aims to stabilise antibodies
— 4 Sep 2009 15:31 | HealthResearchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have developed a systematic method to improve the stability of antibodies. The technique could lead to better... — full story
Protein folding: Diverse methods yield clues
— 7 Aug 2009 11:06 | BiologyRice University physicists have written the next chapter in an innovative approach for studying the forces that shape proteins - the biochemical workhorses of all living things... — full story
Bone's material flaws lead to disease
— 5 Aug 2009 10:38 | HealthThe weak tendons and fragile bones characteristic of osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, stem from a genetic mutation that causes the incorrect substitution of a single... — full story
Secrets of a life-giving amino acid revealed by Yale researchers
— 17 Jul 2009 02:09 | HealthSelenium is a trace element crucial to life - too little or too much of it is fatal. In the 17 July issue of the journal Science, researchers at Yale University and University of Illinois... — full story
New method may accelerate drug discovery for difficult diseases like Parkinson's
— 13 Jul 2009 17:00 | HealthWhitehead Institute scientists have developed a rapid, inexpensive drug-screening method that could be used to target diseases that until now have stymied drug developers, such as Parkinson's... — full story
Variants of 'umami' taste receptor contribute to our individualised flavour worlds
— 9 Jul 2009 14:03 | HealthUsing a combination of sensory, genetic, and in vitro approaches, researchers from the Monell Centre confirm that the T1R1-T1R3 taste receptor plays a role in human umami (amino acid)... — full story
Scripps Research scientists observe human neurodegenerative disorder in fruit flies
— 25 Jun 2009 11:01 | HealthA team of scientists from The Scripps Research Institute, Katholeike Universiteit Leuven, and the University of Antwerp, Belgium, among other institutions, has created a genetically... — full story
An easy way to find a needle in a haystack by removing the haystack
— 19 Jun 2009 09:36 | HealthResearchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena and their colleagues from the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague have developed a new method to quickly and reliably... — full story