Ribosome insight could help combat antibiotic resistance
... of the cell's most important players, the protein factory called the ribosome. What they found offers new information on how proteins are formed and how they create the chain of proteins that make up an organism. A detailed picture of how the ribosome allows accurate translation of the genetic code has bee...Bizarre new protein blocks a real-life terminator
...amino acids strung together inside a tiny cellular factory known as the ribosome. The human body uses the amino acid tryptophan to make thousands of proteins and other important molecules, including niacin, or Vitamin B3. People must get their tryptophan from food - unlike bacteria, which can manufacture ...The science of the scoop: Wheat proteins for ice cream?
... thanks to technological advances in the ice cream factory or flavor experiments at the ice cream shop down the street, it's always recognizably itself. It doesn't take a Ph.D. to recognize the sign of a true classic....Report supports sustainable food production
...c resistance disease in humans. Animal crowding in factory farms and high-speed processing of food animals have been blamed for an increased incidence of foodborne diseases. The authors say the environmental impacts of industrial agriculture are many and far-reaching. For example, heavy farm machinery degrad...Electronic tongue for environmental monitoring
... cartridge. You could put the system in a river or factory process stream to monitor the mixtures flowing through it, says Professor Barrow....UC Berkeley, Joint Genome Institute target chloroplasts for clues to green plant evolution
...at makes green plants green. As the photosynthetic factory of the plant cell, the chloroplast contains its own complement of genes distinct from the comparably sized mitochondrial genome in the energy center of the cell or the much larger genome in the cell nucleus. "The chloroplast genome can be more inform...Nanoparticles could aid biohazard detection, computer industry
...e the low-purity gold waste swept up from the coin factory floor." In their purest forms, precious metals such as gold and platinum are among the most coveted substances in the world. But these metals are more commonly found in nature as part of low-purity compounds like metal salts -- which, despite their ...Prize to Weizmann Institute professor for landmark work in stem cell transplantation
...transplant was attempted in 1993, in a 20-year-old factory worker from northern Italy, who had suffered from acute myeloid leukemia for a year, and had no matched donor in the family. As there was no time to search for an unrelated donor, physicians intended to perform an autologous transplant (using the pat...R&D yields numerous applications for conductive polymers
...s that detect environmentally hazardous chemicals, factory emissions, and flavors or aromas in food products. The future for this technology lies in all-polymer batteries, injection-molded antistatic products, printed circuit boards, electrochromic smart windows and automotive rear vision systems, paint pri...Discovery of proteins necessary for HIV release suggests possible new therapeutic targets
...be said to have one, is to turn a host cell into a factory that churns out virus copies and releases them to infect other cells. Dr. Sundquist's research has focused on discovering the mechanisms underlying this manufacturing process. By identifying and characterizing the structures of specific cellular prot...Warped idea: Ways to stop swayed wood may be around the bend
...id Cai, noting that oftenthe wood product leaves a factory looking straight only to warp later. Warping has ...he wood-based panel," Cai said. That wouldenable a factory manager to make changes in the manufacturing process to avoid warping of thefinished product, he not...Texas A&M, Ecor Corp. sign deal to produce health-related proteins
... process I've developed to use sugarcane as a drug factory to produce proteins, not just for cosmetic uses bu...hing from animal to plant organisms as the protein factory has been the focus of Mirkov's research for years, research supported to a great extent by the Lower......tudy provides the first blueprint for the cellular factory that produces motor neurons from embryonic stem ce...ese two pathways interact, comprising the cellular factory that makes motor neuron. Using biochemical techniques and testing mutations in key pathway genes, Pf...Melbourne scientist overturns 30 year calcium dogma
...um transport system is based on the cell's protein factory called the Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER). The ER can withstand high concentrations of calcium. Hubbard's research suggests that the ER acts as a conduit for calcium from one side of the cell to the other. New protein, new mysteryIn the process of unr...Scientists at TSRI create new strain of yeast with 21-amino acid genetic code
...l car design onto the auto market and by embracing factory mass production of his "Tin Lizzie." Now a team of investigators at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and its Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology in La Jolla, California is introducing revolutionary changes into the genetic code of organisms li...A wake-up call for environmental health
...r dioxide, and other pollutants from coal fires or factory emissions. Two studies published in this journal last year (Lancet 2002; 360: 1184, 1203, 1210) confirmed that combustion-related particulate air pollution is an important environmental risk factor for cardiopulmonary mortality. One of these studies ...UGA researchers use transgenic trees to help clean up toxic waste site
...h a special gene at the site of a 19th-century hat factory in that northeastern city. "We hope to see a signi... as it is elsewhere. The site of a former chemical factory near Brunswick, for example, is polluted with mercury and other toxic chemicals. Mercury contaminati...Trade Center debris pile was a chemical factory, says new study
...ming World Trade Center debris pile was a chemical factory that exhaled pollutants in particularly dangerous forms that could penetrate deep into the lungs of workers at Ground Zero, says a new study by UC Davis air-quality experts. The new work helps explain the very fine particles and extraordinarily high ...