Posts Tagged ‘enzymes’
Vitamin B6 may beat malaria pathogen
U. SOUTHAMPTON (UK) — New research on vitamin B6 could lead to drugs that target the pathogen that causes malaria. Continue…
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Plant enzyme works day and night shifts
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Researchers have discovered a plant enzyme that switches from storing energy during the day to transporting energy in the roots at night. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 3, 2012 12:00 - 1 Comment
Enzymes may hold key to diseases A-Z
BROWN (US) — Researchers argue that important enzymes—proprotein convertases—are potentially rich targets for developing therapies. (more…)
Top Stories - Jul 7, 2011 10:55 - 0 Comments
Termite guts act like biofuel refinery
PURDUE (US) — A cocktail of enzymes from the guts of termites may be better at getting around the barriers that inhibit biofuel production from woody biomass. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jun 29, 2011 14:30 - 1 Comment
Disorderly enzyme fights off body slams
USC (US) — An enzyme’s random behavior is crucial to antibody diversity and how the immune system works to keep the body healthy. (more…)
Top Stories - Mar 30, 2011 11:16 - 2 Comments
Chemical war: How plants starve bugs
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — In the ongoing battle between plants and the pests that love to eat them, a few plants respond with lethal force, producing an enzyme that starves attackers. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Dec 8, 2010 12:16 - 1 Comment
Heat helped hasten life’s beginnings
UNC CHAPEL HILL (US) — The time required for evolution on a warm earth is shorter than previously thought, according to new research investigating the effect of temperature on extremely slow chemical reactions. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Nov 9, 2010 13:29 - 7 Comments
Meditate to improve cell health
UC DAVIS (US) — Positive psychological changes that occur during meditation training increase activity of telomerase, an enzyme important for the long-term health of cells in the body. (more…)
Best of 2010, Health & Medicine - Aug 4, 2010 9:59 - 4 Comments
Enzyme puts kibosh on chronic pain
UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US)—Researchers have identified an enzyme that blocks chronic pain by robbing a major pain pathway of a key molecule. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 14, 2010 14:15 - 1 Comment
Easy-to-see enzyme marks diabetes early
JOHNS HOPKINS (US)—People on the threshold of developing diabetes appear to have dramatically higher blood levels of an easy-to-detect enzyme, making it possible to perform a simple test to detect the disease before symptoms or complications occur and in time to reverse its course. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jul 7, 2010 9:58 - 0 Comments
Computer simulates super-fast protein fold
RICE (US)—A computer program is allowing researchers to accurately simulate protein folding dramatically faster than previous methods. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 27, 2010 10:16 - 1 Comment
Early ‘energizers’ powered prehistoric life
U. LEEDS (UK)—A compound called pyrophosphite may have acted as the battery that energized primitive life forms, new research suggests. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 15, 2010 11:44 - 0 Comments
Flipping the switch to trigger cell suicide
U. COLORADO (US)—The discovery of a previously unknown cellular “switch” may provide researchers with a new means of triggering programmed cell death, findings with implications for treating cancer. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Mar 15, 2010 10:39 - 2 Comments
Cobalt catalyst could propel solar energy
EMORY (US)—Chemists have developed what they say is the most potent homogeneous catalyst known for water oxidation, considered a crucial component for generating clean hydrogen fuel using only water and sunlight. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 12, 2010 13:33 - 1 Comment
Fighting proteins guide embryo development
PRINCETON (US)—Protein competition over an important enzyme provides a mechanism to integrate different signals that direct early embryonic development. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 10, 2010 12:02 - 0 Comments
Enzyme method may immobilize malaria
MCGILL (CAN)—A multinational team may have identified a target for a new malaria treatment by disabling digestive enzymes in malaria parasites, which are transmitted by mosquito bites. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 9, 2010 12:31 - 0 Comments
Eyeing an enzyme to stop deadly infections
VANDERBILT (US)—Knowing the structure of an enzyme essential to the protozoan parasite that causes African sleeping sickness may lead to new drugs to combat the often fatal disease and several other related disorders that afflict millions of people around the world. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 12, 2010 16:10 - 0 Comments
Antibiotics that outwit bacteria
U. MICHIGAN—Researchers have figured out a way to fool bacteria by using the microbes’ own defenses against them, a technique that could provide scientists with a new tool in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 11, 2010 16:15 - 0 Comments
To protect heart, compound props up enzyme
INDIANA U.—Researchers have determined how a “chemical chaperone” does its job in the body, which could lead to a new class of drugs to help reduce the muscle damage caused by heart attacks. (more…)
