Sentences with phrase «modified human protein»

According to the researchers these findings identify a uniquely modified human protein that is required for Ebola virus to grow in cells.

A newly identified requirement of a modified human protein in ebolavirus (EBOV) replication, may unlock the door for new approaches to treating Ebola.

Not exact matches

Actually, formula ingredients are made by modifying cow's milk - based protein and adding a milk sugar (lactose), fats, vitamins, and minerals to mimic the components of human milk.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has given a provisional go - ahead for genetically modified rice containing human genes to be grown in Kansas, despite concerns that the proteins from the pharma rice could find their way into the food chain.

Soy protein is significantly different in composition from cow milk protein, but both are modified to more closely resemble the amino acid content of human milk (human milk protein is actually 40 % casein and 60 % whey).

The vast majority of babies fed a human milk substitute are given modified cow milk or soy protein - based formula.

The drug - like compounds can be modified and developed into medicines that target a protein in the human body that is responsible for chemotherapy resistance in cancers, said biochemist Pia D. Vogel, lead author on the scientific paper reporting the discovery.

Bacteria can be genetically modified to produce various proteins and other substances humans need, so 3 - D printed bacterial materials may have many other medical uses, too.

Specifically, rodents genetically modified to express human amyloid precursor protein (hAPP), which can lead to the debilitating plaques that form in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, seem to struggle to find the hidden platform relative to their healthy peers.

Since the February breakthrough, PPL Therapeutics of Edinburgh, which collaborates with the Roslin Institute, has produced five lambs from fetal cells that were genetically modified to carry marker genes and genes for human proteins.

Bancel showed Pangalos and his team two studies in which an injection of modified mRNA containing pseudouridine prompted nonhuman primates to express two human proteins.

«Ferritin, a protein - coated iron storage molecule, is normally found throughout the mouse and human body, but in our experiments, we modified it, placing the ferritin particles in different positions to see if we could improve our results,» says co-first author Sarah Stanley, a senior research associate in Friedman's lab.

Whereas in yeast, a histone - modifying enzyme might have a single regulatory task, the human version of that same enzyme might have other regulatory tasks that involve additional proteins.

Your report on detecting longer wavelengths of red light with a modified human visual protein (15 December 2012, p 19)...

The team led by Dr Rubén López — of the UAB's Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology and Institute of Neuroscience, and the Centre for Networked Biomedical Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED)-- used a genetically modified mouse that produces the human form of IL - 37 to study the function of this protein.

UBC Psychiatry Professor Dr. Weihong Song and Neurology Professor Yan - Jiang Wang at Third Military Medical University in Chongqing attached normal mice, which don't naturally develop Alzheimer's disease, to mice modified to carry a mutant human gene that produces high levels of a protein called amyloid - beta.

«Single enzyme's far - reaching influence in human biology, disease: Enzyme Fam20C chemically modifies more than 100 different secreted proteins, thus directing numerous cellular processes.»

Many of these complexes have proven quite complicated, but scientists have put those involving a protein called Cas9 to use: deleting, modifying, and even adding DNA to organisms ranging from yeast to humans.

But other lipids are known to guide cell migrations in human brain development, and geneticist Ken Howard of University College London suspects HMG - CoA reductase might help produce a similar lipid molecule or modify a protein that attracts the germ cells.

Using studies in both mice and humans, they found that exposure to farm dust increases expression of a protective protein that suppresses the inflammatory immune system by modifying the communication between the lining of the lungs and the immune system.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- A new study on the mechanics of aging and longevity finds that fruit flies inhibited from producing the protein Sirt4 — which is also found in humans — are short - lived, while flies modified to make extra Sirt4 are long - lived.

If this technique proves successful, it could lead to better ways on how to modify the proteins in cells, or even eliminate cancer cells in humans.

Our proposal represents the kind of research I am interested in, which seeks to modify natural protein variants to be used as therapeutic options for human brain diseases.

Therefore, Teitell's group opted to further modify their constructs with a 3 ′ - UTR mitochondrial targeting sequence (MTS) from human mitochondrial ribosomal protein S12 — the same essential approach used to optimize the import of allotopically - expressed proteins by Dr. Marisol Corral - Debrinski, (3,4) and subsequently advanced for multiple additional ETS subunit proteins by Dr. Matthew O'Connor's group at the SENS Foundation Research Center (RC).

We will be discussing new research published in nature where researchers modified a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease into a more harmless form, allowing them to remove the damage caused by Alzheimer's in human cells.

Genetically modified goats are an important tool for producing valuable therapeutic protein [14]--[16] and studying human diseases as ideal biomedical models [17]--[19].