Bursts of waves drive immune system 'soldiers' toward invaders
...ad author is Weiner, who is assistant professor of biochemistry at UCSF. Because the same kind of components scrutinized in the new research also drive cancer cell metastasis, the finding may lead to strategies to block cancer growth. Similarly, faulty regulation of white blood cell movement plays a role in he...Gene regulation, not just genes, is what sets humans apart
... from humans and chimps, Haygood said. While the biochemistry that cells use to turn food into energy is essentially the same across most animal species, the fine-tuning of how an organism deals with the different sorts of sugars and complex carbohydrates in its diet lies in the regulatory sequences, Wray said....A study by the MUHC and McGill University opens a new door to understanding cancer
... Dr. Park, who is also a Professor of oncology and biochemistry at McGill University. In that study we have clarified the structure of some of the proteins involved and their connections, which allows us to understand the consequences of these interactions. This is, in fact, a feat that merits close attention, be...ASBMB taps 8 scientists and 1 politician for top awards
...who makes outstanding contributions to research in biochemistry and molecular biology. Alexandra C. Newton (U...-base methods that revolutionized insight into the biochemistry and biophysics of proteins. The Honorable Michael N. Castle, (R-DE), Member of the U.S. House of...Immunity in social amoeba suggests ancient beginnings
...alks. In this new report, Dr. Adam Kuspa, chair of biochemistry and molecular biology at BCM, and his colleagues describe a new kind of cell they dubbed a sentinel cell. Sentinel cells circulate within the slug, engulfing invading bacteria and sequestering poisons or toxins, eventually eliminating these from t...A low expression of MX2 gene exists in the white blood cells of narcoleptics
...emiquantitative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) a biochemistry and molecular biology technique for isolating and exponentially amplifying a fragment or sequence of interest of DNA, via enzymatic replication, without using a living organism using gene-specific primers. Finally, the expression levels of the c...Zebrafish: It's not your parents' lab rat
... of the embryo," said Lane, assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biology. "It fills in another piece of the bigger picture of what's going on during neurological development." Zebrafish -- like rats and fruit flies before them -- are becoming regular contributors on research ranging from cancer to cocai...Discoverer of Sly Syndrome finds way of delivering medicine to fight rare genetic disorder
...illiam S. Sly, M.D., chairman of the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at Saint Louis University, discovered the rare genetic disease in 1969, he and his colleagues have conducted research to learn more about how to treat it. He says their recent findings have significance beyond treating the extre...Researchers watch antibiotics, bacteria meet at atomic level
...the lead author of both studies and a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The two conducted the study with researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham , the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. In the ...Enzyme discovery sheds light on vitamin D
...switch, says Dr. Jones, adding: Its remarkable. In biochemistry you rarely see that kind of predictive work from modeling molecules and enzymes. The Queens researchers believe the hydroxylase enzyme plays an important role in human cell functions. When vitamin D drugs are used in an attempt to arrest certain t...Researchers use new approach to predict protein function
... The research team, led by University of Illinois biochemistry professor John A. Gerlt, is the first to use a computational approach to accurately predict a proteins function from its amino acid sequence. Their in silico (computer-aided) predictions were validated in the laboratory by means of enzyme assays and ...... addition, they will be able to examine the unique biochemistry of organisms that thrive under heat and pressure conditions which would be deadly to surface dwellers. Carbon sequestration efforts the idea of safely burying global warming gases like carbon dioxide underground should also receive a significant b...Global community listens to TAU genetic researcher at EU Conference on Hearing Loss
... of the department of human molecular genetics and biochemistry at Tel Aviv Universitys Sackler School of Medicine, represented EuroHear, a consortium of 25 European, Israeli and U.K.-based research teams, at the European Union conference Hearing and Seeing: European Research to Fight Deafness and Blindness, held...New way to target and kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria found
...., senior study author and professor of chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics at UNC-Chapel Hill. The study app...ensional picture of the relaxase protein. Lujan, a biochemistry graduate student in the School of Medicine, confirmed the hunch using x-ray crystallography, which c...Invisible gases form most organic haze in urban, rural areas
... assistant professor in CU-Boulder's chemistry and biochemistry department. "That tells us there has to be an extended source or continuous formation for the pollution." The scientists believe the extended source of particle pollution is reactive, colorless gases called Volatile Organic Compounds, or VOCs, th...Malaria-resistant mosquitoes battle disease with 'molecular warhead'
...d Dr. Richard Baxter, a postdoctoral researcher in biochemistry at UT Southwestern and lead author of the study. Understanding how some mosquitoes can fend off malaria might someday lead to reducing or even eliminating the mosquitos capacity to transmit the devastating disease, Dr. Baxter said. We have been t...CU researchers solve mystery of how DNA strands separate
...to premature aging," said co-author Smita Patel, a biochemistry professor at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, N.J. "Helicases are involved in practically all DNA and RNA metabolic processes." The researchers made their discovery by anchoring one end of one of the strands in a double helix to ...Translating form into function
...lts confirmed the prediction. Almo, a professor of biochemistry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, further confirmed the finding by determining the substrates atomic level structure through x-ray crystallography. To tell the truth, we were very surprised that the docking approach worked to determine the sub...$125 million bioenergy initiative powered by Midwest ag industry, MSU research
...ty Distinguished Professor of plant biology and of biochemistry and molecular biology, will be the executive director of the center, splitting his time between East Lansing and Madison. Keegstra and Tim Donohue, UW-Madison professor of bacteriology, led the initiative to bring the center to the Great Lakes region......rof. Ivan Dikic and his team from the institute of biochemistry II at the University of Frankfurt now describe a n...s Prof. Mller-Esterl, director of the institute of biochemistry and vice president of the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University. Virtually every process within an euk...