Science Current Events | Science News | Brightsurf.com
 

Protein Folding Current Events | Protein Folding News | 11

Sort By: Page Views | Date

ESC Congress 2003: Prothrombotic mutations are associated with increased cardiovascular events in postmenopausal women receiving hormone replacement therapy
IMPORTANT: This press release accompanies a poster or oral session given at the ESC Congress 2003. Written by the investigator himself/herself, this press release does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Society of Cardiology Recent studies have suggested that hormone replacement therapy may be associated with an increased... view more... (2003-09-01)

Proteasome activator enhances survival of Huntington's disease neuronal model cells
To function, each living cell needs both to build new and to degrade old or damaged proteins. To accomplish that, a number of intracellular systems work in concert to keep the cell healthy and from clogging up with damaged proteins.   view more (2007-02-28)

US Patent Granted for Method to Detect Protein Translocations in Cells - Redistribution™
BioImage A/S today announced that it had been granted US 6,518,021, a patent covering the detection of protein translocation in cells using luminophores, such as green fluorescent protein (GFP), fused to the target protein. Redistribution™ - the name coined by the company to describe its technology that monitors protein translocation in real... view more... (2003-03-03)

Cereal and milk is the new sports supplement
Exercise physiologist Lynne Kammer, from The University of Texas at Austin, led a group of researchers who investigated the post-exercise physiological effects of the foods.   view more (2009-05-14)

Botched production of insulin molecule may lead to diabetes
Picture a pretzel factory production line, with conveyer belts carrying the dough, formed into unbaked pretzels, down to the oven to be cooked. Now imagine what would happen if pretzel dough started to overflow the mixer and oozed as a blob onto the conveyor, misshapen, and sticking fast to the dough of the other fully formed, unbaked pretzels.   view more (2007-10-02)

New antifreeze protein may allow longer storage of transplant organs
A new antifreeze protein discovered in tiny snow fleas by Queen's University researchers may lengthen the shelf life of human organs for transplantation.   view more (2005-10-24)

Hybrigenics Launches Pharma Industry’s First Proteomics Database For Hiv Drug Development Proprietary Hiv Bioinformatics Platform At Keystone Symposia Meeting
Paris, France - Hybrigenics, the functional proteomics company, announces the launch of the world’s most comprehensive combined protein-protein interactions “map” between the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and its host cell in humans. This represents the first time that a fully integrated HIV-Human protein pathway has been... view more... (2001-03-29)

Enzyme fights mutated protein in inherited Parkinson's disease
An enzyme that naturally occurs in the brain helps destroy the mutated protein that is the most common cause of inherited Parkinson's disease, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found.   view more (2009-06-29)

Sugar coupled to protein causes kidneys to save water
Several new mechanisms that are important for the production and transport of water channels to the cell surface of kidneys have been identified by a Dutch researcher. The water channels ensure that water in the body is reused. If these fail to work properly, you urinate too much and dehydrate. The research was a collaborative project between the... view more... (2003-10-10)

First molecular simulation of a long DNA strand shows unexpected flexibility
It turns out that sequencing the human genome - determining the order of DNA building blocks - has not completely cracked the code of how DNA directs various cellular processes. In addition to the sequence of the base pairs, the instructions are in the packaging - how DNA is folded within a cell.   view more (2006-12-07)

Targeting the protein AEG1 impairs human liver cancer growth in mice
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a highly aggressive form of liver cancer and one of the 5 most common cancers worldwide. Devanand Sarkar and colleagues, at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, have now identified a gene that is expressed at high levels in human HCC tumor samples and generates a protein important for HCC... view more... (2009-02-17)

Is one diet as good as another? U of I study says no and tells you why
Any diet will do? Not if you want to lose fat instead of muscle. Not if you want to lower your triglyceride levels so you'll be less likely to develop diabetes and heart disease. Not if you want to avoid cravings that tempt you to cheat on your diet. And not if you want to keep the weight off long-term.   view more (2009-03-05)

Turning down gene expression promotes nerve cell maintenance
Anyone with a sweet tooth knows that too much of a good thing can lead to negative consequences. The same can be said about the signals that help maintain nerve cells, as demonstrated in a new study of myelin, a protein key to efficient neuronal transmission.   view more (2009-02-02)

Dysfunctional protein dynamics behind neurological disease?
Researchers at Lund University, Sweden, have taken a snapshot of proteins changing shape, sticking together and creating structures that are believed to trigger deadly processes in the nervous system.   view more (2009-10-14)

News brief: Effects of aspirin and folic acid on inflammation markers for colorectal adenomas
Unexpectedly, inflammation markers do not appear to be involved with the chemopreventative effect of aspirin on colorectal adenomas, according to a brief communication published online October 12 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.   view more (2009-10-13)

Hybrigenics completes First Protein Interaction Map of Bacterial Pathogen in Nature
Free Licence to Access this Protein Interaction Map Available to Academic Researchers on the Web Paris, France Hybrigenics, the functional proteomics company, announced today the completion of the first protein interaction map of a human bacterial pathogen: Helicobacter pylori. This large-scale protein interaction was generated by HYBRIGENICS,... view more... (2001-01-10)

Protein plays broader role than originally thought in neurofibromatosis
Neurofibromatosis type I is a common genetic disorder in which tumors grow along certain types of nerves and can also affect other tissues such as bone, heart, and skin.   view more (2006-08-11)

Prion discovery gives clue to control of mass gene expression
The discovery in common brewer's yeast of a new, infectious, misfolded protein -- or prion -- by University of Illinois at Chicago molecular biologists raises new questions about the roles played by these curious molecules, often associated with degenerative brain diseases like "mad cow" and its human counterpart, Creutzfeldt-Jakob.   view more (2009-03-16)

Enzyme shreds Alzheimer's protein
An enzyme found naturally in the brain snips apart the protein that forms the sludge called amyloid plaque that is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD), researchers have found.   view more (2006-09-21)

Researchers discover molecular basis of a form of muscular dystrophy
A team of French and German researchers report in the May 2008 print issue of The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) that people with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy are missing a protein called c-FLIP, which the body uses to prevent the loss of muscle tissue.   view more (2008-04-30)
Sort By: Page Views | Date
© 2009 BrightSurf.com