Proteomics, Metabolomics and Lipidomics News and Research

Latest Proteomics, Metabolomics and Lipidomics News and Research

Novel Way of Collecting Highly Detailed Information About Organic Tissues

An innovative technology created by USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience researchers proposes a new way of acquiring and arranging highly comprehensive information about organic tissues in record time.

5 Apr 2023

Vegan protein helps develop muscle just as well as animal protein

According to recent research from the University of Exeter, fungi-derived mycoprotein is just as efficient as animal protein in promoting muscle growth during resistance training.

From University of Exeter 5 Apr 2023

Insights into mechanisms impacting NSCLC disease progression

Proteomics is the study and analysis of proteins in a biological system, including their structures, functions, associations, and alterations.

5 Apr 2023

Revealing how cohesin attaches to the DNA and forms loops

Ana Losada, a scientist at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) and then at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, identified cohesin, a protein essential to the process of cell division, in Xenopus frogs at the end of the 1990s.

5 Apr 2023

Tiny Protein Interacts with Ion Channels to Make Our Eyes Sensitive to Dim Light

Using cryo-electron microscopy and mass spectrometry, researchers from PSI have deciphered the structure of an ion channel found in the eye while it interacts with the protein calmodulin – a structure that has eluded scientists for three decades.

4 Apr 2023

Potential Treatment Pathway for IBD Emerges from Microbe-Gut Signaling Study

Fresh insights into how our bodies interact with the microbes living in our guts suggest that a two-drug combination may offer a new way to treat inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

4 Apr 2023

Researchers Explain How a Single Mutation Causes Ataxia

Worldwide, only a handful of patients are known to suffer from episodic ataxia type 6, a neurological disease that causes transient loss of muscle control.

4 Apr 2023

Cold Temperature Increases Human Life Expectancy

Cold activates a cellular cleansing mechanism that breaks down harmful protein aggregations responsible for various diseases associated with aging.

4 Apr 2023

SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Induces Memory Loss After COVID-19

Patients diagnosed with post-COVID-19 syndrome often experience cognitive and memory impairments.

4 Apr 2023

Jumping Genes in Various Cancers may be Used to Direct Novel Immunotherapies to Tumors

New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that transposable elements in various cancers potentially may be used to harness novel immunotherapies against tumors that don't typically respond to immune-based treatments. Shown is a 3D rendering of cancer cells.

4 Apr 2023

Designing a Lipid Nanoparticle to Safely Deliver mRNA to the Pancreas

Therapeutics that use mRNA-;like some of the COVID-19 vaccines-;have enormous potential for the prevention and treatment of many diseases.

4 Apr 2023

New Resource Provides a Better Annotation of the Genome and Understanding of Variant Impact

Each person has about 4 million sequence differences in their genome relative to the reference human genome.

4 Apr 2023

KAI2-Ligand Signaling Pathway Responsible for Regulating Vegetative Reproduction in Liverwort Plants

Asexual, or vegetative, reproduction in plants is controlled by environmental conditions, but the molecular signaling pathways that control this process are poorly understood.

3 Apr 2023

MET+LEU Cocktail Prevents Cellular Senescence and Disrupted Proteostasis Induced by Myotube Atrophy

A new research paper was published on the cover of Aging (listed by MEDLINE/PubMed as "Aging (Albany NY)" and "Aging-US" by Web of Science) Volume 15, Issue 6, entitled, "Cellular senescence and disrupted proteostasis induced by myotube atrophy are prevented with low-dose metformin and leucine cocktail."

3 Apr 2023

Newly Identified Rare Genetic Variants Could Point to One of the General Mechanisms Driving AMD

A study from the National Eye Institute (NEI) identified rare genetic variants that could point to one of the general mechanisms driving age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a common cause of vision loss in older adults.

3 Apr 2023

Researchers Uncover a New, Direction-Dependent Friction in Proteins

An interdisciplinary research team of the Institutes of Physical Chemistry and Physics of the University of Freiburg and the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt-am-Main has discovered a new, direction-dependent friction in proteins called anisotropic friction.

3 Apr 2023

"Visual Biochemistry" Approach to Understand How the BRCA2 Protein Binds and Interacts with DNA

Using a self-built inverted microscope complete with laser optical tweezers to capture DNA, Yale Cancer Center and University of California Davis researchers for the first time created a visualization of the full-length human BRCA2 protein at the single molecule level.

3 Apr 2023

Proteomics, Metabolomics and Lipidomics News and Research

Latest Proteomics, Metabolomics and Lipidomics News and Research

Novel Way of Collecting Highly Detailed Information About Organic Tissues

Vegan protein helps develop muscle just as well as animal protein

Insights into mechanisms impacting NSCLC disease progression

Revealing how cohesin attaches to the DNA and forms loops

Tiny Protein Interacts with Ion Channels to Make Our Eyes Sensitive to Dim Light

Potential Treatment Pathway for IBD Emerges from Microbe-Gut Signaling Study

Researchers Explain How a Single Mutation Causes Ataxia

Cold Temperature Increases Human Life Expectancy

SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Induces Memory Loss After COVID-19

Jumping Genes in Various Cancers may be Used to Direct Novel Immunotherapies to Tumors

Designing a Lipid Nanoparticle to Safely Deliver mRNA to the Pancreas

New Resource Provides a Better Annotation of the Genome and Understanding of Variant Impact

KAI2-Ligand Signaling Pathway Responsible for Regulating Vegetative Reproduction in Liverwort Plants

MET+LEU Cocktail Prevents Cellular Senescence and Disrupted Proteostasis Induced by Myotube Atrophy

Newly Identified Rare Genetic Variants Could Point to One of the General Mechanisms Driving AMD

Researchers Uncover a New, Direction-Dependent Friction in Proteins

"Visual Biochemistry" Approach to Understand How the BRCA2 Protein Binds and Interacts with DNA

Tighter Core of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein in New Variants Likely Improved the Virus's Ability to Infect Host Cells

First Steps Driving Antibiotic Resistance Discovered

UConn Health scientists explain why Shigella bacteria can infect humans but not mice

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