NIH awards new $14.5 million, five-year grant to the Scripps Research Institute
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...uld prove useful for researchers studying proteins involved in even more prevalent diseases like cancer and heart disease. "We know now that most diseases involve proteins going wrong in one of two ways," said lead researcher Cecilia Clementi, assistant professor of chemistry at Rice University. "In the first...NIH awards Emory and Georgia Tech $10 million for partnerships in cancer nanotechnology
...th cell biologists to study a variety of molecules involved in the development and progression of cancer, including those involved in programmed cell death; genes such as the p53 gene, which is implicated in many kinds of cancer; a...Marine Biological Laboratory summer investigator wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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...ion of desirable production traits, identify genes involved in pest and disease resistance and enable better matching of products to market specifications."The bovine genome is similar in size to the genomes of humans and other mammals, containing approximately three billion DNA base pairs. The sequencing...Botulism bug says no to nitric oxide, provides key to molecule's role in human cell signaling
...nates the origins and structure of a vital protein involved in human cell signaling, University of Texas Medical School scientists report today in Science Express, the rapid online publication forum for the journal Science. The paper also details how evolution transformed one of nature's simplest molecules, n...U-M scientists see ubiquitin-modified proteins in living cells
...escribe how ubiquitin latched onto Jun - a protein involved in cell growth and gene transcription and moved Jun from its usual location in the cell's nucleus into hollow spheres called lysosomes in the cytoplasm outside the nucleus. Filled with digestive enzymes, lysosomes break down unwanted proteins into a...Society for Psychophysiology Research
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...analyzed blood samples from some 600 of the people involved in the study. Half had bladder cancer; the others did not but were matched against their counterparts for such things as age, sex and neighborhood. The team then measured exposure to the arylamines via a technique developed by Tannenbaum's tea...Experts present new research on hot topics in aging at GSA's annual meeting in Washington, DC
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...age (30-60) and other physical characteristics and involved previously sedentary, overweight subjects who trai...roblems. Mitchell noted that the study involved considerable time commitment over a short period and that there was good oversight and controls, esp...US Agency for International Development awards $34 million to Virginia Tech
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