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Facts of Week
February 15, 2018
Exosomes enable transmission of macromolecules and intracellular communication between cells of membrane, cytosolic proteins, lipids and RNA by serving as vehicle of transfer. Recently they have been identified as useful vectors as they are composed of cell membrane instead of synthetic polymersÃÂ ...
Advanced Science News
February 14, 2018
The torsional conformation of the backbone of a π-conjugated macromolecule influences its shape, solubility, optoelectronic characteristics, rheological behavior, and ultimately solid-state functions. In order to tailor these molecular, supramolecular, and materials properties, the desired coplanarÃÂ ...
Science Daily
February 14, 2018
Methyltransferases are enzymes that transfer methyl groups to certain building blocks of macromolecules such as DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid, carrier of genetic information), RNA (ribonucleic acid, transmitter of genetic information) and also proteins (products of the genetic information), and henceÃÂ ...
Albany Times Union
February 13, 2018
Nobel Laureate Joachim Frank, a former scientist at the state's Wadsworth Center in Albany, will be speaking Thursday afternoon at the Albany Capital Center on Eagle Street. The state Department of Health is hosting the 1 p.m. event, which will include a lecture by Frank, a Columbia University professorÃÂ ...
Phys.Org
February 8, 2018
The team reported on a series of novel hyperbranched macromolecules with, at most, 15 mechanical bonds at the branching unit. Mechanical bonds are a novel and exciting class of non-covalent bonds similar to familiar chains and hooks, for example. These macromolecules can induce an overallÃÂ ...
Phys.Org
February 5, 2018
In solution, these macromolecules are intricately entangled with each other, like the fibers in clumps of fluff. In the 1970s, a model was ... In this way, the model captures how the mobility of each individual macromolecule is restricted by the spatial distribution of all the others. In this picture, the only way toÃÂ ...
HPCwire (blog)
February 1, 2018
As an important method in structural biology, cryo-EM allows the observation of the structure of bio macromolecules such as nucleic acids and proteins. In contrast to X-ray crystallography and magnetic resonance imaging, cryo-EM allows high-resolution 3D imaging without damaging the structures of theÃÂ ...
Markets Insider
January 22, 2018
Symic Bio is a biopharmaceutical company developing novel matrix-targeting biotherapeutics, a new category of therapeutics focused on matrix biology. These biotherapeutics, with potential applications in a wide variety of disease states, are inspired by naturally occurring macromolecules that play keyÃÂ ...
Technology Networks
January 22, 2018
Nanda and colleagues began the search for these ancient proteins using 3D data from the vast RCSB Protein Data Bank, a global archive that contains the 3D structures of nearly 140,000 biological macromolecules, rendered in atomic-level detail. "We don't have a fossil record of what proteins looked likeÃÂ ...
Science Daily
January 16, 2018
Serving as pipelines throughout the body's organs and tissues, epithelial tubes have important physiological roles, from the delivery of essential gases, liquids, and macromolecules around the body to the elimination of metabolic waste. These structures are formed in the earliest stages of embryonicÃÂ ...
ScienceAlert
January 16, 2018
When DNA from the animals' hippocampus (which processes memory) was later analysed, the researchers found that chromatin – macromolecules that help 'package' DNA inside cells – had become more accessible. With a new bioinformatics tool they developed called DEScan (Differential EnrichmentÃÂ ...
The Hindu
January 13, 2018
The two-member team, led by Dr. John Philip from the Metallurgy and Materials Group, used a magnetic nanofluid emulsion (oil droplets finely dispersed in water) attached with certain macromolecules (polymers) for detecting urea. The polymer attached to the oil droplets appears like a ball with a shock ofÃÂ ...
The Hindu
January 12, 2018
... Monahans have been found to contain carbon-based compounds. Scientists from the United Kingdom, the United States and Japan studied millimetre-size blue salt crystals inside the meteorites that fell in 1998 in Morocco and found a mixture of carbon-, oxygen- and nitrogen-bearing macromolecules inÃÂ ...
Science Trends
January 5, 2018
When biological macromolecules like proteins or polysaccharides are added to the solution mix, the formation pathway can be drastically altered. If the added macromolecules mediate nanoparticle interactions in a way that causes them to assemble with crystallographic alignment, the result is a compositeÃÂ ...
Science Daily
January 4, 2018
The interactions of biological macromolecules such as nucleic acids, proteins, and polysaccharide-protein conjugates can be mimicked by artificial ... then polymerized in the presence of a presynthesized polyion of opposite charge and another macromolecule serving as an uncharged copolymer block.
Science Magazine
December 31, 1999
Structural techniques such as x-ray crystallography and electron microscopy give insight into how macromolecules function by providing snapshots of ... FRET efficiencies also carry very precise information on the actual distance between fluorophores attached to distinct moieties of a macromolecule.
The Hindu
September 2, 2017
The effect of these macromolecules on chronic biofilm causing pathogens like E. coli, Acinetobacter, Klebsiella were studied and the resultsÃÂ ...
3DPrint.com
August 31, 2017
Chemistry Professor Timothy Long, director of the Macromolecules Innovation Institute (MII), and Maruti Hegde, then a postdoctoral researcherÃÂ ...
Phys.Org
August 21, 2017
Liquid-crystal polymers comprise molecules with high molecular mass, called macromolecules. They are comb-shaped, which implies thatÃÂ ...
Markets Insider
August 16, 2017
"The extent to which we can vary and control physico-chemical characteristics and biological behavior of macromolecules, which are based onÃÂ ...
Futurity: Research News
August 14, 2017
The hybrid lipid-protein material, called a lipoproteoplex, comprises both a coiled supercharged protein macromolecule and a commerciallyÃÂ ...
Technology Networks
August 10, 2017
Because the researchers engineered the protein macromolecule with extensive positive charges on the surface and a hydrophobic core, it canÃÂ ...
News-Medical.net
April 6, 2017
Within individual cells, there exist thousands of different types of macromolecules, or organic compounds. These will be different, even amongÃÂ ...
The Emory Wheel
December 31, 1999
... Chem 222) will be replaced with Chem 202: Foundations of Reactivity, Chem 203: Advanced Reactivity and Chem 204: Macromolecules.
Design ENGINEERING
December 31, 1999
For the past year, researchers at the College of Engineering and College of Science were able to synthesize the macromolecules, making themÃÂ ...
Doctor Tipster
February 19, 2017
"The use of proper inhibitors, selective for key steps in the biosynthesis of cellular macromolecules in general, may repair normal dynamics in the autolysosomal section and rectify the pathological storage that is the ultimate reason of these types of ...
Science Daily
February 19, 2017
Current technology for imaging DNA and other genetic material relies on special fluorescent dyes to enhance contrast when macromolecules are imaged. These dyes may perturb cell function, and some eventually kill the cells -- undesirable effects inÃÂ ...
Northwestern University NewsCenter
February 18, 2017
For decades, textbooks have stated that macromolecules within living cells, such as DNA, RNA and proteins, do not have visible fluorescence on their own.
Medgadget (blog)
February 17, 2017
Thus, discovery of new modalities allowing the effective delivery of drugs and bio-macromolecules to the central nervous system (CNS) is of great importance for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders.
Daily Nexus
February 16, 2017
Proteins are essential macromolecules that are made up of a sequence of amino acids, which fold up in three-dimensional space to create the structure of the molecule.
AZoNano
February 15, 2017
The surfaces of these "bare" CNPs were then coated with a variety of cationic, or positively charged, macromolecules, such as branched polyethylenimine (PEI), polypeptidic poly L-lysine (polyLys) and dendritic poly amidoamine (PAMAM+), in order to ...
The Hindu
February 15, 2017
"India is in need of manpower for scientific explorations and discoveries for which youngsters should be motivated to undertake research," he said adding India was the second largest macromolecule depositor in protein data bank as well as utilising the ...
Phys.Org
February 15, 2017
The discovery is significant for understanding physical, biological and chemical processes involved in drug design, functions and synthesis of macromolecules, and may even provide clues in the prevention of Alzheimer's disease. Fundamentally, the ...
Science Daily
February 15, 2017
This mechanical deformation creates transient pores in the carrier membrane to enhance the membrane's permeability to macromolecules and promote the efficient uptake of drugs. Scientists are now developing a model for vesicle squeezing that can beÃÂ ...
The Statesman
February 14, 2017
These extracellular structures consist mainly of macromolecules that are secreted by the cell. The chemical nature of the macromolecules differs among organisms but the extracellular structures of most eukaryotes have a common theme - they contain ...
Crain's Detroit Business
February 12, 2017
"Mike Chopp is world-renowned and is looking to develop exciting treatments in stroke and TBI using vesicles released by cells that contain cellular macromolecules to stop disease processes," Lapointe said. But researchers readily acknowledge one of ...
GenomeWeb
February 10, 2017
... of mutation are induced by cancer-causing events; differentiating benign and malignant tumors; mapping of tumors at the molecular and cellular levels; new ways to target the regulator gene Myc; and the delivery of biologically active macromolecules.
The New Indian Express
February 9, 2017
Prof Wuthrich, an expert in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance(NMR) spectroscopy methods for studying biological macromolecules was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002.
Daily News & Analysis
February 8, 2017
Wuthrich was awarded Nobel in chemistry "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution" in 2002, the CCMB said. 'Personalised medicine' is anÃÂ ...
Zee News
February 8, 2017
Wuthrich was awarded Nobel in chemistry "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution" in 2002, the CCMB said. 'Personalised medicine' is anÃÂ ...
Outlook India
February 7, 2017
Wuthrich was awarded Nobel in chemistry "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution" in 2002, the CCMB said. 'Personalised medicine' is anÃÂ ...
Times of India
February 7, 2017
Wuthrich is a Switzerlandbased chemist who was awarded the Nobel prize in 2002 for his contribution to the development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the 3D structure of biological macromolecules in solution. He will beÃÂ ...
Penn State News
February 6, 2017
Nogales' research is dedicated to visualizing cellular macromolecules using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) as her main experimental tool.
Science Times
February 4, 2017
Headed by Donald Ronning, the team who studied the HpMTAN found out that the H. pylori uses a unique biosynthetic pathway to synthesize vitamin K2, a vitamin which catalyzes the HpMTAN's interaction with other macromolecules which also leads toÃÂ ...
Elko Daily Free Press
February 4, 2017
... to correctly identify the mechanism that led to the congealing as a polymerization process and a further 80 more years past that (1949) before the German organic chemist Hermann Staudinger proposed his theory of a macromolecule chain reaction.
Digital Journal
February 3, 2017
Aging is a assembling of impairment to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs. If any of that damage can be fixed, the outcome is rejuvenation.
Georgetown University The Hoya
February 3, 2017
"We also demonstrated that sequencing instruments could still work even when they're not being coddled in an indoors lab, which opens up a whole bunch of opportunities for doing macromolecule analysis in places like Mars." Bai, the only undergraduate ...
News-Medical.net
February 3, 2017
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences returns analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) to the center of protein research and macromolecule characterization with the next-generation Optima AUC. The instrument is now available for use in labs around the world, and ...
ITV News
February 2, 2017
The arrival of the new hardware means University of Leeds scientists are now in a position of being able to study bacteria, viruses, and the macromolecules that dictate the life and health of our cells at near atomic level in three different ways ...
Phys.Org
February 1, 2017
Vitamin K2 acts to expedite the HpMTAN enzyme's interaction with other macromolecules, including the very bacterium that causes an array of gastric health issues.
