News articles tagged with 'protein'
Possible new approach to treating breast and prostate cancers
— 9 Feb 2010 17:16 | HealthIn a new approach to developing treatments for breast cancer, prostate cancer and enlarged hearts, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine researchers are zeroing in on a workhorse... — full story
Prion leaves lasting mark on memory
— 7 Feb 2010 16:53 | BiologyPrions are a special class of proteins best known as the source for mad cow and other neurodegenerative diseases. Despite this negative reputation, according to a new report in the... — full story
Sweet! - sugar plays key role in cell division
— 7 Feb 2010 16:32 | HealthUsing an elaborate sleuthing system they developed to probe how cells manage their own division, Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered that common but hard-to-see sugar switches... — full story
Breakthrough by Danish scientists in preventing maternal malaria
— 7 Feb 2010 15:50 | HealthResearchers at the University of Copenhagen have become the first in the world to synthesise the entire protein that is responsible for life-threatening malaria in pregnant women and... — full story
Scientists ID a protein that splices and dices genes
— 7 Feb 2010 15:38 | HealthA novel finding, described 4 February on the Science Express Web site by teams from the National Cancer Institute, The University of Texas Health Science Centre at San Antonio and the... — full story
Nuclear pore complexes harbour new class of gene regulators
— 7 Feb 2010 14:19 | HealthNuclear pore complexes are best known as the communication channels that regulate the passage of all molecules to and from a cell's nucleus. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological... — full story
Researchers explore link between human birth defect syndrome, cancer metastasis
— 4 Feb 2010 13:01 | HealthSome cells are natural rule-breakers. Neural crest cells for example, not only migrate throughout the body during development (most cells are more selective in their wandering), they... — full story
Scientists find quantum mechanics at work in photosynthesis
— 4 Feb 2010 11:44 | BiologyA team of University of Toronto chemists have made a major contribution to the emerging field of quantum biology, observing quantum mechanics at work in photosynthesis in marine algae... — full story
Scientists find ideal target for malaria therapy
— 4 Feb 2010 11:38 | HealthScientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a protein made by the malaria parasite that is essential to its ability to take over human red blood... — full story
Yale-developed test can help predict and diagnose preeclampsia
— 4 Feb 2010 11:35 | HealthResearchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a simple urine test to rapidly predict and diagnose preeclampsia, a common, but serious hypertensive complication of pregnancy... — full story