Biochemistry News

Each year hundreds of the best and brightest researchers gather in Lindau, Germany, for the Nobel Laureate Meeting.

As people age, bone tends to deteriorate faster, causing osteoporosis and other disorders.

Marc Torrent, Ph.D., Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, has been honored as a recipient of a 2013 ICAAC Young Investigator Award.

The China Chromatography Network will participate in the "2013 World Biochemistry Analytical Instruments and Laboratory Equipment Exhibition in China" , taking place at the Shanghai New International Expo Center on June 25. As the sole strategic partner of LCGC North America in China, the China Chromatography Network will distribute free copies of ... (more)

The scientific goal of this project is to characterize the relationships between sequence, structure, and function for all RNAs, using combined tools of bioinformatics, experimental biochemistry and structural biology.

E-mail: wcj@csmu.edu.tw or changyc@csmu.edu.tw . Phone: Mulberry has been considered to possess different benefits such as protecting liver; improving fever, urine excretion disorder, hypertension, and diabetic syndrome; and preventing cardiovascular diseases.

The process by which viruses, including HIV and Ebola, hijack cellular proteins is parallel to that found in viruses infecting organisms that grow in volcanic hot springs, which are divided from humans by a 2-billion-year evolutionary gap.

The research, published online on the journal Nature Communications, was led by Francesc Villarroya, professor from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the UB and Director of the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona , affiliated centre with the campus of international excellence BKC.

Derek Lovley, a microbiologist at the University of Massachusetts, led a U.S. government-supported project to make the gasoline substitute, butanol, from microbes in the laboratory.

People who follow a vegan lifestyle - strict vegetarians who try to eat no meat or animal products of any kind - may increase their risk of developing blood clots and atherosclerosis or "hardening of the arteries," which are conditions that can lead to heart attacks and stroke.

Would it not be nice to take a pill and regain that elusive memory? We are all forgetful at times and without a clue as to how to get it better.

Each year hundreds of the best and brightest researchers gather in Lindau, Germany, for the Nobel Laureate Meeting.

The pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of COPD are not restricted to pulmonary inflammation and structural remodeling.

This chapter discusses the ecological implications of dividing plants in groups with distinct photosynthetic production capacities.

Annual review of biochemistry , Vol. 60, No. 1. , pp. 795-825, doi:10.1146/annurev.bi.60.070191.004051 The denatured "state" of a protein is a distribution of many different molecular conformations, the averages of which are measured by experiments.

Do you want to live a longer life in good health? Simple practices can make some difference, such as exercise or calorie restriction.

Memory improved in mice injected with a small, drug-like molecule discovered by UCSF San Francisco researchers studying how cells respond to biological stress.

Sabato D'Auria is currently a senior scientist with a tenured position within the National Research Council of Italy as the head of the Laboratory for Molecular Sensing at the Institute of Protein Biochemistry CNR, Naples, Italy.

A protein secreted by the chlamydia bug has a very unusual structure, according to scientists in the School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio.

New research indicating GM soy and corn feed may cause stomach inflammation in pigs has been treated with caution by experts.