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Washington, March 5 (ANI): A team of researchers has demonstrated for the first time the specific activity of the protein NEIL3, one of a group responsible for maintaining the integrity of DNA in humans and other mammals.
Since it was first identified about eight years ago, NEIL3 has been believed to be a basic DNA-maintenance enzyme [...]

Washington, Sept 18 (ANI): Scientists from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) have identified a mechanism that could trigger onset of various genetic diseases.

They have found a process by which proteins with a tendency to cause conformational diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, [...]

London, Sept 14 (ANI): Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) have identified two proteins that prompt stem cells to develop into skin cells.

They hope that the new findings could help understand basic mechanisms involved not only in formation of skin, but also on skin cancer and other epithelial cancers.

According to lead researcher Claus [...]

Washington, Sep 7 (ANI): Researchers at the University of British Columbia have turned the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus into a protein production factory by adapting a single protein on its surface, thus making useful proteins that can act as vaccines and drugs.

C. crescentus is a harmless bacterium that has a single protein layer on its surface. [...]

Washington, September 4 (ANI): American scientists have discovered a protein’s “Jekyll and Hyde” role in cancer development.

While the protein called FOXO3a is thought to protect against cancer development, researchers from [...]

Washington, Sept 4 (ANI): Scientists from University of Michigan claim to have discovered a gene, which when switched off, can control obesity in mice and help them remain thin.

According to Alan Saltiel, the Mary Sue Coleman Director of the U-M Life Sciences Institute, deleting the [...]

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): In a remarkable piece of detective work, scientists working at Trinity College Dublin have discovered three genes that are unique to humans.

In the study published online in Genome Research, boffins have made a [...]

London, August 31 (ANI): A new research has shown that photosynthetic viruses can keep the world’s oxygen levels up.

The viruses, which infect single-celled algae called cyanobacteria, are hyper efficient photosynthesisers thanks to a unique set of genes.

Previous work had shown that cyanophage viruses have some photosynthesis genes, apparently used to keep the host cyanobacteria on [...]

Washington, Aug 25 (ANI): Using the eyes of fruit flies, researchers from the US and Ireland have identified new proteins necessary for memory.

The discovery not only sheds light on this critical neurological process, but also provides information on a form of mental retardation in humans.

“Understanding translational control mechanisms in the brain teaches us how [...]

London, Aug 22 (ANI): British scientists have revealed that a gut dwelling bacterium can help treat inflammatory bowel disease called colitis.

The research team from Institute of Food Research in Norwich, UK have genetically engineered the gut bacterium called Bacteroides ovatus to express a protein called keratinocyte growth factor-2 (KGF-2), when exposed to a specific [...]

Washington, August 19 (ANI): If researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center are to be believed, some children with a history of severe milk allergy can safely drink milk and consume other dairy products every day.

The researchers came to this conclusion after following up with a subset of children who were part of a 2008 [...]

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Influenza A(H1N1) virus is a subtype of influenza virus A and the most common cause of influenza (flu) in humans. Some strains of H1N1 are endemic in humans and cause a small fraction of [...]

Washington, July 28 (ANI): A team of researchers led by Indian origin scientist has come up with a potential new treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, the second-leading cause of infant mortality in the world.

Ravindra Singh, associate professor in biomedical sciences at Iowa State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine said that more than 95 percent [...]

London, July 9 (ANI): Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco claim to have identified a gene crucial to maintaining embryonic stem cells’ all-purpose, pluripotent state.

The researchers say that their finding may prove helpful in improving the scientific understanding of how cells acquire their specialized states, and provide a strategy to efficiently reprogram mature [...]

London, June 24 (ANI): The first prosthetic bone material that is made from wood has been developed by Italian scientists.

The researchers transformed the building blocks of wood into the material from which bone is made.

The team first heated the wood to remove water content and proteins, leaving behind a carbon skeleton of the wood’s architecture. [...]

Washington, June 23 (ANI): The mechanism behind how carbohydrates are synthesised from small sugar units has shed new light on a promising way to target new medicines against tuberculosis, revealed a new study.

While working with components of the tuberculosis bacterium, researchers [...]

Washington, June 19 (ANI): Scientists at Tel Aviv University (TAU) in Israel have found that a cancer-causing protein can also help fight tumours it causes. he researchers have shown that an oncogene called Ras-which can cause normal cells to be come cancerous when mutated or expressed in high concentrations-has the power to heal as well [...]

Washington, May 15 (ANI): They say smoking is injurious to health, but a new study has revealed that cigarettes can protect from allergies.

The research team from Utrecht University in the Netherlands has shown that cigarette smoke can prevent allergies by decreasing the reaction of immune cells to allergens.

It decreases the allergic response by inhibiting the [...]

Washington, May 15 (ANI): A study authored by researchers at from Imperial College London and the University of North Carolina has revealed that avian influenza viruses do not thrive in humans because the temperature inside their noses is very low.

The researchers say that the new finding may help explain why bird flu viruses do not [...]

Washington, May 06 (ANI): Higher level of the protein albumin in urine is linked to an increased risk for blood clots in the deep veins of the legs or lungs, according to a study.

Bakhtawar K. Mahmoodi, B.Sc., of the University Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands, and colleagues carried out a study, in which, they followed [...]