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Showing posts with label Biochemistry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Biochemistry. Show all posts
Monday, February 10, 2025

Purdue biochemists discover self-repair function in key photosynthetic protein complex

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Sujith Puthiyaveetil and Steve McKenzie look at a plant thylakoid in a lab at the biochemistry building at Purdue University. Photo Credit: ...
Sunday, February 9, 2025

Research Pinpoints Weakness in Lung Cancer’s Defenses

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A microscope image of lung cancer cells (purple) containing the activated form of a metabolic enzyme called GUK1 (brown) that supports cance...
Friday, February 7, 2025

Discovery of unexpected collagen structure could ‘reshape biomedical research’

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Jeffrey Hartgerink is a professor of chemistry and bioengineering at Rice. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Jeffrey Hartgerink / Rice University Co...

Spliceosome: How Cells Avoid Errors When Manufacturing Mrna

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Quality control during splicing: When an error in the precursor mRNA is detected, the spliceosome is blocked, the recruited control factors ...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

New light-tuned chemical tools control processes in living cells

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Jun Zhang, Laura Herzog and Yaowen Wu have found a way to control proteins in living cells. Photo Credit: Shuang Li A research group at Umeå...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Plant-based substitute for fossil fuels developed for plastic foams

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Ziqi Yu (Postdoc), Isaac Nartey Oduro (PhD student) and Daniela Gonzalez- Sepulveda (undergraduate RA) are examining lignin-based polyuretha...
Saturday, January 25, 2025

Drawing a Line from the Gut Microbiome to Inflammation and Depression

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Morganella morganii bacteria on a plate. Photo Credit: Ajay Kumar Chaurasiya ( CC BY-SA 4.0 ) It’s become increasingly clear that the gut mi...
Monday, April 8, 2024

First-of-its-kind integrated dataset enables genes-to-ecosystems research

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DOE national laboratory scientists led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed the first tree dataset of its kind, bridging molecula...

Researchers develop better way to make painkiller from trees

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Steven Karlen, left, and Vitaliy Tymokhin, scientists with the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, examine a reactor used to convert chem...
Thursday, April 4, 2024

Vaping additives harm a vital membrane in the lungs, according to new Concordia research

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Panagiota Taktikakis (left) and Christine DeWolf: “Understanding the impact of vaping additives on lung surfactant is vital, particularly fo...
Saturday, March 30, 2024

Researchers discover molecule that promotes production of cancer cells in triple-negative breast cancer

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Hiroshima University researchers found that AIbZIP is highly upregulated in triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). AIbZIP induces hyper proli...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Decoding the plant world’s complex biochemical communication networks

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PhD candidate Shannon Stirling in Natalia Dudareva’s Lab, transfers DNA into a petunia by using a syringe to inject bacterium into the stigm...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Natural recycling at the origin of life

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Volcanic freshwater lakes, similar to those found in Iceland today, offered a favorable niche on an early earth. The low-salt, alkaline cond...

Study reveals how pH affects the ability of ulcer bacteria to attach

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Anna Åberg and Anna Arnqvist Björklund. Photo Credit: Mattias Pettersson A study by Anna Arnqvist's research group at Umeå University re...