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Computer Simulations Reveal the Energy Landscape of Ion Channels
May 3, 2013 Ion channels are important drug targets. A young team of researchers investigated the opening and closing mechanisms of these channels. The time consuming calculations were performed using the high ... > full story -
New Mechanism Discovered in Meiosis: How Modification of an Enzyme Governs Critical Processes in Sexual Reproduction
May 3, 2013 Scientists have made an important discovery in meiosis research. They have identified a new mechanism that plays an important role in ... > full story -
New Target for Personalized Cancer Therapy
May 2, 2013 A common cancer pathway causing tumor growth is now being targeted by a number of new cancer drugs and shows promising results. A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of ... > full story -
Cell Biology: Active Transporters Are Universally Leaky
May 2, 2013 Biochemists found that as active transporters in cell membranes undergo conformational changes to allow their main substrates to pass through through, small molecules like water slip through as ... > full story -
'Dark Genome' Is Involved in Rett Syndrome
May 2, 2013 Researchers have described alterations in noncoding long chain RNA sequences in Rett ... > full story -
Stem Cell Discovery Could Aid Research Into New Treatments
May 2, 2013 Scientists have made a fundamental discovery about how the properties of embryonic stem cells are controlled. Researchers have found that a protein, which switches on genes to allow embryonic stem ... > full story -
Diet, 'Anti-Aging' Supplements May Help Reverse Blood Vessel Abnormality
May 1, 2013 A diet low in grains, beans and certain vegetables -- combined with "anti-aging" supplements -- improved blood vessel function, in a new ... > full story -
New Molecule Heralds Hope for Muscular Dystrophy Treatment
May 1, 2013 There's hope for patients with myotonic dystrophy, the most common form of muscular dystrophy in adults. A new small molecule has been shown to break up the protein-RNA clusters that cause the ... > full story -
Discovery of New Gigantic Swelling Phenomenon of Layered Crystal Driven by Water
May 1, 2013 Scientists have discovered an intriguing phenomenon in which an inorganic layered crystal expanded and contracted by 100 times its original size in a few seconds in an aqueous solution, displaying a ... > full story -
It Slices, It Dices, It Silences: ADAR1 as Gene-Silencing Modular RNA Multitool
May 1, 2013 RNA, once considered a bit player in the grand scheme by which genes encode protein, is increasingly seen to have a major role in human genetics. Researchers now report how the RNA-editing protein, ... > full story
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