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Researchers discover instant messaging in proteins

Proteins are essential for every living cell and responsible for many fundamental processes. In particular, they are required as bio-catalysts in metabolism and for signaling inside the cell and between cells.

19 Sep 2019

Research provides insight into unusual construction process in unicellular parasite

The complexity of molecular structures in the cell is amazing. Having achieved great success in elucidating these structures in recent years, biologists are now taking on the next challenge: to find out more about how they are constructed.

19 Sep 2019

Researchers join new project to eliminate animal testing

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, are part of an ambitious plan at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, to eliminate animal testing by 2035.

19 Sep 2019

Researchers create first protein-engineered hydrogel

Imagine a perfectly biocompatible, protein-based drug delivery system durable enough to survive in the body for more than two weeks and capable of providing sustained medication release.

18 Sep 2019

Researchers identify two groups of neurons related to Leigh Syndrome

Leigh Syndrome affects one in every 40,000 newborns and is produced by deficits in the mitochondria, which are in charge of providing the energy needed for cells to function correctly.

18 Sep 2019

New software will accelerate data-independent acquisition (DIA) proteomics experiments

Spectronaut 13 has been updated to allow scientists to build libraries from PASEF (DDA) and analyze diaPASEF (DIA) data acquired using the timsTOF Pro.

From Biognosys 18 Sep 2019

Cancer cells survive chemotherapy by eating their neighboring tumor cells

Researchers from the Tulane University School of Medicine have discovered that some cancer cells survive chemotherapy by eating their neighboring tumor cells.

17 Sep 2019

Sleep deprivation affects fat metabolism

We're all a little short on sleep during the work week. A new study adds to the mounting evidence about just how harmful lack of sleep can be.

16 Sep 2019

Cellular metabolic overactivity leads to inflammation, research reveals

Scientists describe a previously unknown disorder of the immune system: in a distinct subset of immune cells from patients with primary immunodeficiency, cellular respiration is significantly increased.

16 Sep 2019

New platform uses nanoparticles to deliver anti-cancer agent to cells

Scientists from the University of Cambridge have developed a platform that uses nanoparticles known as metal-organic frameworks to deliver a promising anti-cancer agent to cells.

16 Sep 2019

New reaction enables edition of organic molecule's skeletons

Since Friedrich Wohler synthesized urea (by accident) back in 1828, chemical synthesis - and organic synthesis for that - has been a driving force in pharmaceutical innovation.

13 Sep 2019

Breath-based tests could benefit from modeling of the underlying biology

Breath-based tests are gaining in popularity as a non-invasive diagnostic tool for a growing number of medical conditions. Research into improving the collection and analysis of these tests will be presented today at the American Physiological Society Interface of Mathematical Models and Experimental Biology: Role of the Microvasculature Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz.

13 Sep 2019

Scientists identify a potentially novel avenue to treat non-small cell lung cancers

Researchers at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center have made a breakthrough discovery that solves a mystery long forgotten by science and have identified a potentially novel avenue in pre-clinical models to treat non-small cell lung cancers.

13 Sep 2019

Humans have very individualized inflammatory responses to high-fat meal

People have very individualized inflammatory responses to eating a high-fat meal.

12 Sep 2019

Researchers develop more efficient method to produce building blocks needed for drugs

Researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan and Mount Allison University in Canada have developed a more efficient method to produce the building blocks needed for antibiotics and cancer treatment drugs.

12 Sep 2019

Researchers publish microbial profile to support growing field of gut research

There are 157 organisms that form the baseline biome of a healthy human gut, according to research published in the journal PLOS ONE by investigators at the George Washington University.

12 Sep 2019

Reducing acrylamide in fried and baked snacks

In 2002, the discovery of acrylamide in certain snacks rattled consumers and the food industry. Acrylamide, a probable human carcinogen, forms by a chemical reaction during baking or frying.

11 Sep 2019

Cell adhesion protein promotes metastasis in breast cancer, study reveals

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center discovered that a cell adhesion protein, E-cadherin, allows breast cancer cells to survive as they travel through the body and form new tumors, a process termed metastasis.

From Johns Hopkins Medicine 11 Sep 2019

Brain circuit regulates individual responses to temptation cues, rat study finds

Differences in a key brain circuit may suggest why some individuals are less able than others to resist tempting cues, according to a study in rats published today in eLife.

11 Sep 2019

Nanocapsules packed with gene-editing tools could be promising platform for many gene therapies

New tools for editing genetic code offer hope for new treatments for inherited diseases, some cancers, and even stubborn viral infections. But the typical method for delivering gene therapies to specific tissues in the body can be complicated and may cause troubling side effects.

10 Sep 2019