proteins
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Selenium carrier proteins: New starting point for cancer research
A recent study from the University of Würzburg unveiled a key enzyme involved in producing selenoproteins, opening new strategies for…
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Bioluminescent proteins made from scratch enable non-invasive, multi-functional biological imaging
Bioluminescence is the natural chemical process of light creation in some living creatures that makes fireflies flicker and some jellyfish…
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Researchers uncover new role of mutant proteins in some of the deadliest cancers
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and their collaborators have discovered a new way in which RAS genes,…
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SARS-CoV-2 ‘steals’ our proteins to protect itself from the immune system
Researchers at the Medical University of Vienna and the Medical University of Innsbruck discovered that SARS-CoV-2 hijacks three important host…
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AI tool AlphaFold can now predict very large proteins
The AI tool AlphaFold has been improved so that it can now predict the shape of very large and complex…
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Closing in on Parkinson’s Disease proteins in extracellular vesicles in the blood
Brain disorders like Parkinson’s (PD) or Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) start to develop in patients much earlier than when their first…
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Human proteins identified that explain inter-individual differences in functional brain connectivity
A long-standing goal of neuroscience is to understand how molecules and cellular structures on a microscale give rise to communication…
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Engineering creates molecules that target cancer-causing proteins
For some proteins, a single mutation, or change in its DNA instructions, is all it takes to tip the balance…
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Analysis of retinal proteins identifies new drug targets for treating inherited retinal degenerations
An international team of researchers has identified new drug targets for therapies that could benefit patients with different forms of…
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Six proteins implicated in early-onset preeclampsia
Preeclampsia is a life-threatening pregnancy complication marked by persistent high blood pressure that is even more serious when it occurs…
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