News articles tagged with 'protein' (Page 2)
Penn study suggests another avenue for detecting Alzheimer's disease
— 2 Apr 2011 11:13 | HealthResearchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have determined that a well-known chemical process called acetylation has a previously unrecognised association with…
Intelligent design: Engineered protein fragment blocks the AIDS virus from entering cells
— 1 Apr 2011 15:48 | HealthIn what could be a potential breakthrough in the battle against AIDS and a major development in the rational design of new drugs, scientists have engineered a new protein that prevents…
Study identifies promising target for AIDS vaccine
— 1 Apr 2011 15:39 | HealthA section of the AIDS virus's protein envelope once considered an improbable target for a vaccine now appears to be one of the most promising, new research by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute…
Closer look at cell membrane shows cholesterol 'keeping order'
— 1 Apr 2011 15:21 | HealthCell membranes form the 'skin' of most every cell in your body, but the ability to view them up close and in motion cannot be rendered by many experimental techniques. A team of scientists…
Pitt-Stanford research suggests aimless proteins crucial to disease
— 1 Apr 2011 14:45 | HealthResearchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Stanford University discovered that a supposedly inactive protein actually plays a crucial role in the ability of one the world's most…
New therapeutic target for lung cancer
— 1 Apr 2011 14:36 | HealthA new therapeutic target for lung cancer has been discovered by researchers at Seoul National University. It was found that a variant of the protein AIMP2 is highly expressed in lung…
Researchers find possible clues to tamoxifen resistance in breast cancer patients
— 31 Mar 2011 16:00 | HealthBreast cancer patients who become resistant to tamoxifen may have low levels of a protein called Rho GDI-alpha, according to a study published online March 30 in the Journal of the…
Nature study shows common lab dye is a wonder drug - for worms
— 31 Mar 2011 15:42 | HealthBasic Yellow 1, a dye used in neuroscience laboratories around the world to detect damaged protein in Alzheimer's disease, is a wonder drug for nematode worms. In a study appearing…
HIV protein unveils vaccine target
— 31 Mar 2011 14:51 | HealthAn international study headed by a UC Davis scientist describes how a component of a potential HIV vaccine opens like a flower, undergoing one of the most dramatic protein rearrangements…
New cancer drug discovered at U-M heads to clinical trials
— 30 Mar 2011 16:55 | HealthResearchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Centre have developed a new drug called AT-406 with potential to treat multiple types of cancer…