Biochemistry News

On Star Trek, the aliens often look so human that crew members fall in love with them.

The more specialized and sophisticated scientific research becomes, the farther it recedes from everyday experience.

Thank you for your interest in the Research Scientist, Protein Expression & Engineering.

The group of Prof. Dr. Ralf Erdmann at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum discovered a connection of peroxisomal protein import and receptor export.

G proteins play a central role in cellular signal processing. They are described as molecular switches that oscillate between 'on' and 'off', regulated by effectors.

From the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine , Divisions of Signal Transduction and Molecular and Cellular Biology , Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Division of Vascular Biology, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology , Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan; Division of ... (more)

Minitransposons developed at Rice University have the ability to create "circularly permuted" proteins by joining the "N" terminus and "C" terminus of proteins and creating new terminals in other locations along the amino acid strands.

Published in 1911 as part of the "Harper's Library of Living Thought," this volume presents an introduction to the chemistry of cells in the context of plant physiology and gives an interesting overview of the field of biochemistry and related sciences at the time.

They are an essential part of each translation system and in eukaryotes are therefore found in both the cytosol and mitochondria.

In February 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced that research scientist Andreas Mershin with his team at MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms, Barry D. Bruce, professor of biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Switzerland collaborated on perfecting a ... (more)

It activates or represses the expression of some specific genes during cell growth and differentiation.

Some 125 million years ago--more recently than once thought possible -- the molecular structure of the modern feather began to take form, according to molecular dating research by scientists at the University of South Carolina.

The Pcf11 subunit of the yeast CF IA factor functions as a scaffold for the processing machinery during the termination and polyadenylation of transcripts.

To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document.

Tel.: Clinically relevant formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissues have not been widely used in neuroproteomic studies because many proteins are presumed to be degraded during tissue preservation.

LCGC recently interviewed Daniel Armstrong, Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and the Robert A. Welch Chair of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Arlington on his research and upcoming presentations at Pittcon.

Richard Davies wrote: The UK has a good crop of technology pioneers in cloud computing - for example ElasticHosts , FlexiScale, Flexiant, OnApp - and also some strong government initiatives such as G-Cloud . We will have to see whether this kind of technical leadership converts into swift mass-market adoption or not.

Main Category: Diabetes Also Included In: Nutrition / Diet ; Cancer / Oncology ; Immune System / Vaccines Article Date: 05 Feb 2012 - 0:00 PST National Institutes of Health researchers and their colleagues have identified how resveratrol, a naturally occurring chemical found in red wine and other plant products, may confer its health benefits.

Kayarat Saikrishnan 1 , 3 , 4 , Joseph T Yeeles 2 , 4 , 5 , Neville S Gilhooly 2 , 4 , Wojciech W Krajewski 1 , 4 , Mark S Dillingham 2 and Dale B Wigley 1 Mark S Dillingham, School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol, Medical Sciences Building, University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK.

Until now polyurethane has been considered non-biodegradable, but a group of students from Yale University in the US has found fungi that will not only eat and digest it, they will do so even in the absence of oxygen.