Mechanical force controls the speed of protein synthesis
Credit: Benjamin Fritch As cells create proteins, the proteins modulate synthesis speed by exerting a mechanical force on the molecular machine that makes them, according...
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NOAA finds rising emissions of ozone-destroying chemical banned by Montreal Protocol
Credit: NOAA image Emissions of one of the chemicals most responsible for the Antarctic ozone hole are on the rise, despite an international treaty that...
CHEST simulation center awarded $3 million in equipment donation
Credit: Andrea Camino The American College of Chest Physicians® (CHEST) received a $3 million charitable grant from the Olympus Corporation's Grants Committee. This equipment grant,...
Quartet of NFCR scientists publishes papers in immediate succession
ROCKVILLE, MD - A trio of papers co-authored by four National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) scientists has been published this week in highly-cited and...
A ‘dirty bomb’ battles cancer metastasis
CHICAGO --- The death of her mother from ovarian cancer when Dr. Sui Huang was only 12 led to her lifelong scientific pursuit and a...
NIH, Northwestern scientists develop potential new approach to stop cancer metastasis
Researchers have identified a compound that blocks the spread of pancreatic and other cancers in various animal models. When cancer spreads from one part of...
Reducing cholesterol could enhance T-cell cancer immunotherapy
CLEVELAND - Cleveland Clinic researchers have demonstrated for the first time that lowering blood cholesterol levels could enhance the success of a specific type of...
Under certain conditions, bacterial signals set the stage for leukemia
A new study by researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine shows that bacterial signals are crucial to the development of a precursor condition to...
Cellular valve structure opens up potential novel therapies
Credit: Raimund Dutzler, UZH Human cells are enclosed by membranes and are in osmotic equilibrium with their environment. If the concentration of solute molecules (osmolarity)...
Mayo discovery means individualized ovarian, brain cancer therapies
ROCHESTER, Minn. - Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered that a molecular communication pathway - thought to be defective in cancer - is a key player...
New nuclear RNA retention activity discovered
Credit: Toomas Silla Gene expression involves mRNA transport from its place of synthesis to the cytoplasm where protein translation occurs. However, many non-coding RNA species...
A simple software error corrected: bittersweet chloroplast genome becomes the model
Credit: Péter Poczai The first complete plastome nucleotide sequence was published in 1986 for tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) of the nightshade family (Solanaceae). This economically...
Less water, same Texas cotton
Credit: James Bordovsky Plants need water--but what about when it's running low? Is it possible to use less water and still have healthy crops? In...
Mechanism underlying malformation associated with severe epilepsy is revealed
Credit: Fábio Rogerio One of the most frequent causes of drug-resistant epilepsy, considered a difficult disease to control, is a brain malformation known as focal...
UTHealth researcher reveals results of study on emergency breathing tubes
Credit: PHOTO CREDIT Dwight Andrews, UTHealth In a landmark study, researchers found that patients treated with paramedic oxygen delivery using a newer, more flexible laryngeal...
