Tag: Proteins
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Cracking a primordial mystery
A team of scientists has published a paper recently that looks into how amino acids formed on early Earth to birth complex life.
July 17, 2019 -
Nonsense mutation
Here's the lowdown on a unique process of cellular translation.
September 12, 2018 -
Ingest enough of quality protein for a healthy you
Are you consuming enough of quality protein required by your body?
January 8, 2018 -
With myriad functions
Membrane proteins have not yielded as well as other proteins to biochemical techniques, mainly because of the problems involved in isolating and purifying hydrophobic proteins in physiologically active form. Procedures such as SDS-polyacrylamide electrophoresis and hydropathy analysis have certainly been useful, as have labeling techniques involving radioisotopes or fluorescent antibodies. In the last three decades, …
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October 25, 2017 -
Indian adolescents do not get required proteins with daily diet
With undernourishment being one of the leading problems in South Asian countries, Indian children during the second growth spurt or during adolescence do not get the required protein with the daily diet, a health expert said on Thursday. The fulfilment of protein is important for the adolescent boys and girls because it is the transitional …
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April 6, 2017 -
Technique developed to carry protein instructions into cell
Researchers at Stanford University have been refining compounds that would carry instructions for assembling the protein that makes fireflies light up and deliver them into the cells of an anaesthetised mouse. If their technique worked, the mouse would glow in the dark; and if successful in humans, the technique could be useful for vaccines or …
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February 20, 2017 -
No minor pathway
It is essential to understand the central role of the TCA cycle in all of aerobic energy metabolism. Thus far, glucose has been regarded as the main substrate for cellular respiration. But while most summary reactions written for chemotrophic energy metabolism assume glucose as the starting compound, we must also note the roles of alternative …
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August 17, 2016