News articles tagged with 'eukaryotic'
Study analyses role of PARP enzyme in eukaryotes
— 9 Mar 2011 18:59 | HealthAn Ohio State University molecular biologist leveraged a supercomputer to help better define the family tree of a group of enzymes that have been implicated in a wide range of human…
Novel mechanism for control of gene expression revealed
— 5 Mar 2011 13:03 | HealthDr David Levin, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine and Professor of Microbiology at Boston University School of…
Scripps Research scientists solve long-standing mystery of protein 'quality control' mechanism
— 13 Sep 2010 10:43 | HealthScientists from The Scripps Research Institute have solved a long-standing mystery of how cells conduct 'quality control' to eliminate the toxic effects of a certain kind of error in…
'Black box' plankton plays a key role in ocean carbon fixation
— 16 Apr 2010 01:47 | EnvironmentCarbon fixation by phytoplankton in the open ocean plays a key role in the global carbon cycle but is not fully understood. Until now researchers believed that cyanobacteria overwhelmingly…
'Black Box' plankton found to have huge role in ocean carbon fixation
— 16 Apr 2010 00:17 | EnvironmentScientists at the University of Warwick and the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton have opened 'the black box' of eukaryotic phytoplankton and discovered that they actually…
Protein-bait interactions, display libraries featured in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
— 15 Mar 2010 14:27 | BiologyThe use of recombinant proteins, antibodies, small molecules, or nucleic acids as affinity reagents is a simple yet powerful strategy to study the protein/bait interactions that drive…
Researchers discover RNA repair system in bacteria
— 13 Oct 2009 09:44 | BiologyIn new papers appearing this month in Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of Illinois biochemistry professor Raven H. Huang and his colleagues…
Spontaneous assembly
— 9 Jul 2009 14:19 | BiologySelf-assembling and self-organising systems are the Holy Grails of nanotechnology, but nature has been producing such systems for millions of years. A team of scientists has taken a…
Successful construction of eukaryotic plasmids containing HBV C genotype
— 16 Oct 2008 10:20 | HealthHBV infection remains a major health problem in the world. Several data have revealed that lamivudine can efficiently promote the treatment of hepatitis B…
Researchers discover Legionnaire microbe's tricks
— 20 Jun 2008 13:29 | HealthYale University researchers have shed new light how bacteria like the ones that cause Legionnaires' disease and Q-fever raise such havoc in human patients…