Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered a new type of chemical modification that affects numerous proteins within mammalian cells. The modification appears to work as a regulator of important cellular ...
Aug 1, 2013
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A research team led by Kyoto University is attempting to take the Marburg virus by its horns using recently gained knowledge of its core structure.
Jul 12, 2022
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(Medical Xpress)—A previously unknown function of a family of enzymes familiar to biologists may contribute to scientists' understanding of signaling molecules involved in the body's immune response and could help in the ...
Apr 12, 2013
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Antibodies and their derivatives can protect plants and animals—including humans—against viruses. Members of this class of drugs are usually highly specific against components of a particular virus, and mutations in the ...
Jun 26, 2014
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Melioidosis is a tropical disease that claims an estimated 90,000 lives worldwide each year. There is no vaccine, and current treatments are hampered by the ability of the bacterium that causes the disease to resist even ...
Sep 12, 2019
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Glioblastoma is the most lethal and malignant adult brain cancer that may arise from neuroglial stem or progenitor cells. Certain gene mutations or those with a known history of other cancers and radiation therapy may predispose ...
Sep 15, 2021
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Hematopoietic stem cells—bone marrow-derived adult stem cells that give rise to the wide variety of specialized blood cells—come in two flavors: the reserve force sits quietly waiting to be called upon while the active ...
Jul 17, 2013
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Scientists from the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) of the University of Luxembourg have discovered that immune cells in the brain can produce a substance that prevents bacterial growth: namely itaconic acid. ...
May 6, 2013
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(Medical Xpress)—Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have uncovered a group of what have been considered relatively minor regulators in the body that band together to suppress the ...
Nov 28, 2012
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Professor Yi Sun's team at the Zhejiang University report a functional compensatory effect between the Ube2m-Rbx1 and Ube2f-Sag axes of the neddylation–Cullin-RING ligases (CRLs) system in Treg cells, using conditional ...
Dec 22, 2023
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