 'Designer enzymes' created by chemists March 19, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Chemists from UCLA and the University of Washington have succeeded in creating "designer enzymes," a major milestone in computational chemistry and protein engineering. | |
Self-Assembled Viruses May 30, 2008 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Viruses are true experts at importing genetic material into the cells of an infected organism. This trait is now being exploited for gene therapy, in which genes are brought into the cells of a patient to treat genetic diseases ... | |
 Sewing DNA thread with lasers, hooks and microbobbins July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Japanese scientists have made a micro-sized sewing machine to sew long threads of DNA into shape. The work published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Lab on a Chip demonstrates ... | |
New method enables design, production of extremely novel drugs January 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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A new chemical synthesis method based on a catalyst worth many times the price of gold and providing a far more efficient and economical method than traditional ones for designing and manufacturing extremely novel pharmaceutical ... | |
Bacterial 'battle for survival' leads to new antibiotic February 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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MIT biologists have provoked soil-dwelling bacteria into producing a new type of antibiotic by pitting them against another strain of bacteria in a battle for survival. | |
 Researchers witness assembly of molecules critical to protein function June 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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A Virginia Tech research group lead by two biochemistry graduate students has isolated proteins responsible for the iron-sulfur cluster assembly process and witnessed the necessary protein interactions in ... | |
 'Snow flea antifreeze protein' could help improve organ preservation July 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Scientists in Illinois and Pennsylvania are reporting development of a way to make the antifreeze protein that enables billions of Canadian snow fleas to survive frigid winter temperatures. | |
Genetic Material under a Magnifying Glass January 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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The genetic alphabet contains four letters. Although our cells can readily decipher our genetic molecules, it isn’t so easy for us to read a DNA sequence in the laboratory. Scientists require complex, highly sophisticated ... | |
Insulin pill could replace injections for diabetes April 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Insulin pills to replace the injections necessary for those suffering from diabetes appear closer to reality through new research by chemical and biomedical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin. | |
A molecular switch turns on the flame in 'nature's blowtorch' May 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Uncontrolled reaction of organic compounds with oxygen is easy: we call it fire. But nature often needs to do oxidations very specifically, adding oxygen to a particular carbon atom in a complicated molecule without disturbing ... | |
Membrane complexes take flight June 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Against currently held dogma, scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol have revealed that the interactions within membrane complexes can be maintained intact in the vacuum of a mass spectrometer. Their research ... | |
 Persistence pays off October 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Chemists have come remarkably close to mimicking a type of protein previously thought impossible to imitate. The long-term application of this work could be in the development of new types of glucose sensors ... | |
 UCSD Scientists Develop Sensor for Homemade Bombs March 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A team of chemists and physicists at the University of California, San Diego has developed a tiny, inexpensive sensor chip capable of detecting trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used in the most ... | |
 New clues to how proteins dissolve and crystallize May 12, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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In the late 19th century the Czech scientist Franz Hofmeister observed that some salts (ionic compounds) aided the solution of proteins in egg white, some caused the proteins to destabilize and precipitate, ... | |
 Genetically engineered blood protein can be used to split water into oxygen and hydrogen December 01, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 166 vote(s)
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Scientists have combined two molecules that occur naturally in blood to engineer a molecular complex that uses solar energy to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, says research published today in the Journal ... | |
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