Tag: Molecular Biology

Labeling proteins with ubiquitin paves new road to cell regulation researchCredit: K. Lang / TUM Human cells have a sophisticated ...

Bryce Seifert, Ph.D., earns 2019 Richard King Award for best publication by a trainee

Bryce Seifert, Ph.D., Laboratory Genetics and Genomics Fellow at Duke University School of Medicine is the recipient of the 2019 ...

A new art and science collaboration at CRG in Barcelona: Genome-inspired fashion design

The designer Carolin Vogler and scientists at the Centre for Genomic Regulation have been awarded one of the STARTS Residencies, ...

Doing more with less in the study of plant chemical defense

A high-throughput method to quantify plant biochemical responses with small tissue samples Plants can't run away to avoid being eaten, ...

Programmable ‘Legos’ of DNA and protein building blocks create novel 3D cages

Credit: Nicholas Stephanopoulos The central goal of nanotechnology is the manipulation of materials on an atomic or molecular scale, especially ...

New role for a driver of metastatic cancers

Salk scientists uncover the mechanism of a gene to better target cancer therapyCredit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA--(April 2, 2019) Metastatic ...

Nature versus nurture: Environment exerts greater influence on corn health than genetics

Credit: American Phytopathological Society St. Paul, Minnesota (March 2019)--Corn is one of the most important staple crops in the world--over ...

Fast-changing genetics key to hospital superbug survival

For the study, published today in Microbial Genomics, a team of scientists at UCL Genetics Institute and Peking University People's ...

High throughput method to produce and screen engineered antimicrobial lanthipeptides

Credit: Steven Schmitt ETH Zürich Nature has provided us with lots of antimicrobials. However, given the rapid increase of antimicrobial ...

Study identifies new approach to repairing damaged peripheral nervous system

Credit: University of Virginia A new University of Virginia study proves that a damaged peripheral nervous system is capable of ...

Decades-old misconception on white blood cell trafficking to spleen corrected

Credit: University of Turku Contrary to prior belief, the white blood cells enter the spleen primarily via vessels in the ...

HKUST scientists discover how RNA PoII maintains accurate transcription with super computer

Credit: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology The message of life is encoded in our genomic DNA through ...

NFCR Fellow Susan Band Horwitz receives Canada Gairdner Award

Canada's most prominent scientific prize honors world's biomedical research eliteCredit: Canada Gairdner Foundation, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Della ...

Gut microbiome directs the immune system to fight cancer