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When You Eat May Be Just as Vital to Your Health as What You Eat
When you eat may be just as
vital to your health as what
you eat, found researchers.
New experiments in mice
revealed that the daily
waxing and waning of
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New Imagining Technique Could Lead To Better Antibiotics And Cancer Drugs
A recently devised method of
imaging the chemical
communication and warfare
between microorganisms could
lead to new antibiotics,
... > full story
Discovery Allows Scientists For The First Time To Annotate Genomes Experimentally
Bioengineers have made a
breakthrough development
that will now allow
scientists to perform full
delineation of the location
... > full story
Atomic-Level Snapshot Catches Protein Motor in Action
The atomic-level action of a
remarkable class of
ring-shaped protein motors
has been uncovered using a
state-of-the-art protein
crystallography beamline at
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Cells Defend Themselves from Viruses, Bacteria With Armor of Protein Errors
November 25, 2009 — When cells are confronted with an invading virus or bacteria or exposed to an irritating chemical, they protect themselves by going off their DNA recipe and inserting the wrong amino acid into new ... > full story -
Soy Component May Be Key to Fighting Colon Cancer
November 25, 2009 — Scientists have identified a new class of therapeutic agents found naturally in soy that can prevent and possibly treat colon cancer, the third most deadly form of cancer. Sphingadienes are natural ... > full story -
Sticky Solution for Identifying Effective Probiotics
November 25, 2009 — Scientists have crystallized a protein that may help gut bacteria bind to the gastrointestinal tract. The protein could be used by probiotic producers to identify strains that are likely to be of ... > full story -
Origin of Life: Generating RNA Molecules in Water
November 25, 2009 — A key question in the origin of biological molecules like RNA and DNA is how they first came together billions of years ago from simple precursors. Now, researchers have reconstructed one of the ... > full story -
Cross-Country Runabouts: Immune Cells on the Move
November 25, 2009 — In order to effectively fight pathogens, even at remote areas of the human body, immune cells have to move quickly and in a flexible manner. Scientists have now deciphered the mechanism that ... > full story -
Systems Biology Approach Provides Insulin Resistance Insights
November 25, 2009 — Researchers recently offered the sharpest-yet picture of how core biochemical pathways in skeletal muscle cells and fat cells are altered in people who suffer from insulin resistance -- a primary ... > full story -
Biological Basis of 'Bacterial Immune System' Discovered
November 25, 2009 — Scientists have discovered how the bacterial immune system works, and the finding could lead to new classes of targeted antibiotics, new tools to study gene function in microorganisms and more stable ... > full story -
Computational Microscope Peers Into the Working Ribosome
November 24, 2009 — Two new studies reveal in unprecedented detail how the ribosome interacts with other molecules to assemble new proteins and guide them toward their destination in biological cells. The studies used ... > full story -
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Insect Resistance to Bt Crops Can Be Predicted, Monitored and Managed
November 24, 2009 — With Bt crop acreage increasing worldwide, incorporating enhanced understanding of observed patterns of field-evolved resistance into future resistance management strategies can help to minimize the ... > full story -
Biologists Discover Bacterial Defense Mechanism Against Aggressive Oxygen
November 23, 2009 — Bacteria possess an ingenious mechanism for preventing oxygen from harming the building blocks of the cell, according to new ... > full story
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