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A Safer Anthrax Vaccine is at Hand

Monday, September 7th, 2009 - 14:04:22 - Ehud Rattner

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified two small protein fragments that could be developed into an...

Crystals Grown in a Flash

Thursday, August 6th, 2009 - 10:51:35 - Anuradha Menon

A technique that creates crystals on demand using laser pulses could make it easier to prepare the high-quality crystals needed to study protein...

Protein Treatment Repairs Heart Damage

Saturday, July 25th, 2009 - 16:22:50 - Anuradha Menon

By injecting a protein into mice with heart damage, researchers in Boston have shown that it's possible to cause adult heart-muscle cells to...

DNA Transcription and Protein Assembly
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili
Proteins are organic compounds made of amino acids arranged in a linear chain. The amino acids in a polymer chain are joined...

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Molecule Discovered for Pancreas Development

Saturday, July 11th, 2009 - 12:02:46 - Anuradha Menon

For years researchers have been searching for a way to treat diabetics by reactivating their insulin-producing beta cells, to no avail. Now, they may...

H1N1 Less Effective at Rapid Transmission

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 - 16:11:35 - Anuradha Menon

A team from MIT and the Centers for Disease Control has found a genetic explanation for why the new H1N1 "swine flu" virus has spread from person to...

Early Control Of H5N1 Influenza Virus

Sunday, June 21st, 2009 - 19:38:16 - Ehud Rattner

Researchers from Georgia suggest that the cell-signaling protein, interferon type 1, reduced H5N1 influenza virus replication in mice and may offer...

Key Protein Contains Chronic Infection
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 - Anni Shaer Levitt
A research team from UCLA, led by Prof. David Brooks has discovered the reason why the immune system can fight off some...