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Researchers find plant protein that may aid biofuel production
04-27-2007 · EurekAlert!In a breakthrough that could make the production of cellulosic ethanol less expensive, Cornell researchers have discovered a class of plant enzymes that potentially could allow plant materials used to make ethanol to be broken down more efficiently than is possible using current technologies.
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12-18-2006 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are putting a different kind of "foursome" together in hopes of someday developing smart materials called biomimetics that mimic nature. Amy Shen, Ph.D., assistant professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and her Washington University colleague William F. Pickard, Ph.D., senior professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering, are collaborating with a researcher at Washington State University, and one at Indiana University/Purdue University on understanding a plant protein called forisome.
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- CU researcher engineers sorghum that grows in poisonous soils
08-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
Aluminum toxicity in acidic soils limits crop production in as much as half the world's arable land. Now, Cornell researchers have cloned a novel aluminum-tolerant gene in sorghum and expect to have genetically engineered aluminum-tolerant sorghum lines by next year.
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- University of Pennsylvania researchers zero in on the tiniest members in the war on cancer
12-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University have uncovered another reason why one of the most commonly activated proteins in cancer is so dangerous. As reported in Nature Genetics this week, the Myc protein can stop the production of at least 13 microRNAs, small pieces of nucleic acid that help control which genes are turned on and off.
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- Study Offers Insight into Plant Cell-Wall Construction
12-07-2007 · Brookhaven National Laboratory
By studying how plants change their production of amino acids in response to a simulated "attack," scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have uncovered clues that may help engineer more pest-resistant crops and feedstocks that are easily convertible to ethanol, a burnable biofuel.
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- Got cotton? Texas researchers' discovery could yield protein to feed millions
11-20-2006 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station used RNAi to reduce the toxic compound gossypol from cottonseed to a level that is considered safe for consumption, but left the compound in the rest of the plant to ward off insects and disease. Once commercialized, seed from these plants could provide a new, high-protein food available to 500 million people a year.
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- Why liver cancer is more prevalent in males than in females
07-05-2007 · EurekAlert!
Production of a protein that promotes inflammation appears to be linked to the higher incidence of liver cancer in men than in women, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have determined in mouse studies.
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- NIH scientists discover novel cause of iron overload in thalassemia disorders
08-30-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at NIH have discovered a novel cause of iron overload in patients with thalassemia. According to the study, thalassemia patients overproduce a protein called GDF15, which suppresses the production of a liver protein, hepcidin, which in turn leads to an increase in the uptake of dietary iron in the gut. This finding has implications for iron metabolism in other diseases and may contribute to the future development of therapies for thalassemia.
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- Smithsonian scientists highlight environmental impacts of biofuels
01-03-2008 · EurekAlert!
Biofuels reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in comparison to fossil fuels. In the Jan. 4 issue of the journal Science, Smithsonian researchers highlight a new study that factors in environmental costs of biofuel production. Corn, soy and sugarcane come up short. The authors urge governments to be far more selective about which biofuels they support, as not all are more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels.
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- Antibody-altering protein found in developing B cells
07-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
AID is an antibody-altering protein, originally thought to be made onlyby mature B cells and in the developing B cells of transgenic mice.Researchers at Tufts University report that AID is also made bydeveloping B cells in wild-type, or normal, mice. This may offer a newdirection for research into autoimmune diseases.
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- Pathway links inflammation, angiogenesis and breast cancer
08-09-2007 · EurekAlert!
A well-known inflammatory protein spawns an enzyme that inactivates two tumor-suppressing genes, ultimately triggering production of new blood vessels to nourish breast cancer cells, researchers at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the August edition of the journal Cell.
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