Tryptophan is one of the 20 amino acids considered essential for the formation of proteins, which are key macromolecules for the development of life on Earth. This amino acid has […]
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Tricorder Tech: Precision Medicine: Nanofluidic Aptamer Nanoarray Measures Individual Proteins
Editor’s note: If you are on a long term mission or on an away team on another world, you might want your tricorder to be able to do some quick […]
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Tricorder Tech: New Biosensor For Manganese – A Metal That Is Essential For Life
A new biosensor engineered by Penn State researchers offers scientists the first dynamic glimpses of manganese, an elusive metal ion that is essential for life.
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Solving The Mystery Of Left-handed Amino Acids In Primordial RNA Reactions
While humans have an esthetic liking for symmetry in everything, nature prefers asymmetric, single-handed forms when it comes to amino acids—the building blocks of proteins, and, by extension, all things […]
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A Search For Mid-IR Bands Of Amino Acids In The Perseus Molecular Cloud
Amino acids are building-blocks of proteins, basic constituents of all organisms and essential to life on Earth.
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2.6 Billion-year-old Ancestors Of The CRISPR Gene-editing Tool Have Been Resurrected
An international research group has for the first time reconstructed ancestors dating back 2.6 billion years of the well-known CRISPR-Cas system, and studied their evolution over time.
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Self-Assembling Proteins Can Store Cellular “Memories”
As cells perform their everyday functions, they turn on a variety of genes and cellular pathways.
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Early Selection Of The Amino Acid Alphabet Was Adaptively Shaped By Biophysical Constraints Of Foldability
Whereas modern proteins rely on a quasi-universal repertoire of 20 canonical amino acids (AAs), numerous lines of evidence suggest that ancient proteins relied on a limited alphabet of 10 ‘early’ […]