News articles tagged with 'enzyme' (Page 2)
Researchers develop synthetic compound that may lead to drugs to fight pancreatic, lung cancer
— 10 Mar 2011 18:02 | HealthResearchers at UT Southwestern Medical Centre have identified a chemical compound that may eventually lead to a drug that fights cancers that are dependent on a particular anti-viral…
Researchers identify new form of muscular dystrophy
— 10 Mar 2011 17:44 | HealthA strong international collaboration and a single patient with mild muscle disease and severe cognitive impairment have allowed University of Iowa researchers to identify a new gene…
Sunlight can influence the breakdown of medicines in the body
— 9 Mar 2011 19:35 | HealthA study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet has shown that the body's ability to break down medicines may be closely related to exposure to sunlight, and thus…
Scientists find key mechanism of childhood respiratory disease
— 8 Mar 2011 14:23 | HealthResearchers have identified a critical part of the process by which one of the world's most common and dangerous early childhood infections, respiratory syncytial virus, causes disease…
Enzyme enhances, erases long-term memories in rats
— 5 Mar 2011 13:48 | HealthEven long after it is formed, a memory in rats can be enhanced or erased by increasing or decreasing the activity of a brain enzyme, say researchers supported, in part, by the National…
Jekyll and Hyde: Cells' executioner can also stave off death
— 4 Mar 2011 16:00 | HealthAn enzyme viewed as an executioner, because it can push cells to commit suicide, may actually short circuit a second form of cell death, researchers at Emory University School of Medicine…
Protein identified that serves as a switch in a key pathway of programmed cell death
— 3 Mar 2011 13:29 | HealthWork led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists identified how cells flip a switch between cell survival and cell death that involves a protein called FLIP…
New hope for lowering cholesterol
— 3 Mar 2011 13:11 | HealthA promising new way to inhibit cholesterol production in the body has been discovered, one that may yield treatments as effective as existing medications but with fewer side-effects…
Combined molecular study techniques reveal more about DNA proteins
— 3 Mar 2011 13:05 | HealthIllinois researchers have combined two molecular imaging technologies to create an instrument with incredible sensitivity that provides new, detailed insight into dynamic molecular…
Turning bacteria into butanol biofuel factories
— 3 Mar 2011 12:53 | EnvironmentUniversity of California, Berkeley, chemists have engineered bacteria to churn out a gasoline-like biofuel at about 10 times the rate of competing microbes, a breakthrough that could…