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[ST NetWatch] The Genetic Science Learning Center
The Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah offers a wealth of learning resources on the topics of genetics and cell and molecular biology.
Steve Connor: Biologists run ahead in research funding race
Science in Britain appears to be undergoing a financial schism between bio-medical sciences and the physical sciences.
Making New Enzymes to Engineer Plants for Biofuel Production
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have created a new enzyme and demonstrated its potential ability to interfere with the production of lignin, a key cell-wall component in plants.
Scientists take a step towards uncovering the histone code
Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have determined the structures of two enzymes that customize histones, the spool-like proteins around which DNA coils inside the cell.
TAU Researchers Unravel The Mysteries Of DNA Packaging
Main Category: Genetics Also Included In: Biology / Biochemistry Article Date: 20 Dec 2009 - 0:00 PST Imagine a huge spool of film containing thousands of sequences of random scenes.
Probing 3'-ssDNA loop formation in E. coli RecBCD/RecBC-DNA complexes ...
Probing 3'-ssDNA loop formation in E. coli RecBCD/RecBC-DNA complexes using non-natural DNA: a model for "Chi" recognition complexes.
DNA watermarks: a proof of concept.
Vincent_Rouilly's tags for this article Vincent_Rouilly Abstract BACKGROUND: DNA-based watermarks are helpful tools to identify the unauthorized use of genetically modified organisms protected by patents.
Rahall Announces $930K in Recovery Act Grant for MU
Dec. 16, 2009 Rahall Announces $930K in Recovery Act Grant for MU Special to Huntingtonnews.net Washington, DC -- U.S. Rep.
Rapid quantification of DNA methylation by measuring relative peak...
E-mail: drlu@fudan.edu.cn Received 8 May 2009; Revised 19 August 2009; Accepted 29 September 2009; Published online 14 December 2009.
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Universal function-specificity of codon usage
Anne de Bellevue, Montreal, Quebec, H9X3V9, 2McGill Centre for Bioinformatics, McGill University, Duff Medical Building, 3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3A2B4, Canada, 3Department of Molecular Biology and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544, USA and 4Department of Biochemistry, McGill ...
Scripps Research scientists crack mystery of protein's dual function
December 10, 2009-Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have solved a 10-year-old mystery of how a single protein from an ancient family of enzymes can have two completely distinct roles in the body.
UWI introduces advanced forensics degree
Dr Wayne McLaughlin, coordinator of the new Master of Science degree programme in forensics, to be offered at the University of the West Indies, starting September 2010.
Evolutionarily conserved proteins MnmE and GidA catalyze the...
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Novel detection method unmasks circulating breast cancer cells
Circulating metastatic breast cancer cells can lose their epithelial receptors, a process that enables them to travel through the bloodstream undetected, according to research from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Scientists find way to catalog all that goes wrong in a cancer cell
A team of Princeton University scientists has produced a systematic listing of the ways a particular cancerous cell has "gone wrong," giving researchers a powerful tool that eventually could make possible new, more targeted therapies for patients.
Ovaries Must Suppress Their Inner Male
Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany and the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill, UK discovered that if a specific gene located on a non-sex chromosome is turned off, cells in the ovaries of adult female mice turn into cells typically found in testes.
tRNA over-expression in breast cancer and functional consequences
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Nature's solution to age-old chemical paradox: Chemical basis for...
Nature's Solution to Age-Old Chemical Paradox: Chemical Basis for Extra 'Quality Control' in Protein Production ScienceDaily - Even small errors made by cells during protein production can have profound disease effects, and nature has developed ways to uncover these mistakes and correct them.
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