by Delthia Ricks , Medical Xpress Credit: CC0 Public Domain A protein newly discovered by scientists in China is aiding in the dramatic reversal of stroke-like damage in laboratory animals and may one day rescue humans from neurological injury, the research team is predicting. Their work is based on a series of breakthrough studies involving mitochondria, bean-shaped...
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Elusive cancer-related protein captured in flight
This news or article is intended for readers with certain scientific or professional knowledge in the field. Scientists have for the first time seen how the MYC protein, which plays a central role in cancer, binds to a key protein and controls important functions in the cell. The new discovery may in the long term help in the development...
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Lab leads effort to model proteins tied to cancer
This news or article is intended for readers with certain scientific or professional knowledge in the field. Computational scientists, biophysicists and statisticians from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are leading a massive multi-institutional collaboration that has developed a machine learning-based simulation for next-generation supercomputers capable of modeling protein interactions...
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Rice chemists identify hidden aspects of protein-separation process to simplify drug manufacture
HOUSTON – (Oct. 28, 2019) – With a lot of hard work and a dash of salt, Rice University scientists have taken a step toward simplifying drug manufacture. Rice chemist Christy Landes and her colleagues reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences their strategy to make polymer membrane-based separation of proteins more efficient. “It...
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Scientists discover the implication of a new protein involved in liver cancer
The finding has a clear clinical relevance, since it will facilitate patient selection to offer a more specific therapy IDIBELL-BELLVITGE BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE Researchers at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) have just described for the first time the crucial involvement of a cell membrane protein in the development and progression of liver cancer, according...
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Salt helps proteins move on down the road
With a lot of hard work and a dash of salt, Rice University scientists have taken a step toward simplifying drug manufacture. Rice chemist Christy Landes and her colleagues reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences their strategy to make polymer membrane-based separation of proteins more efficient. “It costs about $3 billion...
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Protein movement in cells hints at greater mysteries
by Mary L. Martialay, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute A new imaging technique that makes it possible to match motor proteins with the cargo they carry within a cell is upending a standard view of how cellular traffic reaches the correct destination. The research, which focuses on neurons and sheds light on some neurodegenerative diseases, was published...
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Whitehead Institute team resolves structure of master growth regulator
Posted Yesterday This news or article is intended for readers with certain scientific or professional knowledge in the field. A team of Whitehead Institute scientists has for the first time revealed the molecular structure of a critical growth regulator bound to its partner proteins, creating a fine-grained view of how they interact to sense nutrient...
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Newly discovered protein is the permit to the powerhouse of cells
Medical University of South Carolina researchers report in Science Advances that they have discovered a protein, P17/PERMIT, that is key to recycling aging mitochondria and could be a connection between age-related diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Aging, and the mechanics behind it, remains one of the most closely guarded...
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Quorn protein builds muscle better than milk protein
Posted Yesterday Data presented at the European College of Sport Science (ECSS) conference demonstrates mycoprotein is a more effective source of protein to support post exercise muscle building compared to some animal proteins. A study from the University of Exeter has found that mycoprotein, the protein-rich food source that is unique to Quorn products, stimulates post-exercise muscle building to a greater extent than milk protein. The study evaluated...