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Published in this month's issue of the journal Nature Medicine, a collaborative team of scientists from the University of Illinois, the University of Minnesota Medical School and the Boston Biomedical Research Institute describe engineered proteins that completely neutralize the lethal activity read more »
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Researchers have devised a new way of looking at proteins that interact with one another inside cells. The new method, which is technically simple and uses commonly available resources, could help scientists studying cellular complexes made up of different proteins. Inside a cell, proteins constant read more »
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To develop selective measurement techniques for diagnostics, drug research, and the detection of poisons, researchers would like to combine the high specificity of biochemical reactors with universal microelectronics. Now, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried/Muni read more »
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Plants absorb carbon dioxide from the air and combine it with water molecules and sunshine to make carbohydrate or sugar. Variations on this process provide fuel for all of life on Earth. [click link for full article] read more »
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Researchers at the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease (MGH-MIND) have identified a potential new drug target for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and possibly for other degenerative neurological disorders. [click link for full article] read more »
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Random Technologies, the newest start-up company to emerge from the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), launched its new statistical analysis software package at an international conference of drug industry professionals this week.Random Technologies™ RPro Statistical Software is based o read more »
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Not so long ago, the difficult-to-sequence, highly repetitive, gene-poor DNA found in regions of chromosomes known as heterochromatin was called "junk." Like dark matter in the universe, the true nature of heterochromatin was unknown. [click link for full article] read more »
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The total number of microbes that colonize the surfaces of our adult bodies is thought to be ten times greater than the total number of our human cells. Our microbial partners provide us with certain features that we have not had to evolve on our own. [click link for full article] read more »
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Specialized pulsed lasers have been used to inject individual cells with a variety of materials, but little is known about how this type of injection might affect living cells. For the first time, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have analyzed this nanoscale injection process on livi read more »
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