Medicine New Synthetic Peptides Could Attenuate Atherosclerosis (Medicine) 12 Feb 2021 Synthetic "mini" receptors block atherosclerosis Research over the last 20 years has shown that atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory condition of the arterial blood vessel wall. Soluble mediators such as…
Psychiatry Researchers Showed Brain Protein That Causes Alzheimer’s Actually Protects Against the Disease (Psychiatry) 8 Feb 2021 Findings from a new study on Alzheimer’s disease (AD), led by researchers at the University of Saskatchewan (USask), could eventually help clinicians identify people at highest risk for developing the…
Biology Researchers Unveil Widespread Ribosome Collisions that Promote Cotranslational Protein Folding (Biology) 15 Jan 2021 Translation, the process that peptides are synthesized by ribosomes using mRNA as the template, is a critical step in the central dogma of molecular biology. The elongation rate of ribosomes…
Biology Toadlet Peptide Transforms Into a Deadly Weapon Against Bacteria (Biology) 14 Jan 2021 Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and EMBL Hamburg have discovered remarkable molecular properties of an antimicrobial peptide from the skin of the Australian toadlet. The discovery…
Medicine Enhanced Scorpion Venom Molecules Can Be Used to Treat Chagas Disease (Medicine) 21 Dec 2020 Brazilian researchers tested the antichagasic properties of VmCT1, obtained from the venom of Vaejovis mexicanus, a scorpion harmless to humans, and synthesized novel analogs to redesign the native molecule. Animal…
Medicine Research Boost To Find Treatments For ‘Undruggable’ Cancers (Medicine) 29 Nov 2020 Bath researchers collaborate with Sapience Therapeutics to find new treatments for cancer cell targets that don't respond to other drugs. A research team at the University of Bath, in collaboration…
Biology Scientists Discover New Organic Compounds That Could Have Helped Form The First Cells (Biology) 28 Oct 2020 Researchers screened a wide variety of simple organic compounds to see if they could form polymers under early Earth conditions, and found many polymerised more easily than biological compounds and…
