Sentences with phrase «nucleic acids such»

They also contain rutin (an enzyme catalyst), potent antioxidants, all essential amino acids, essential fatty acids, and nucleic acids such as RNA and DNA.

«We've shown that these oviductosomes are carrying critical molecules that include not only proteins, but also nucleic acids such as RNA and also lipids,» DeLeon says.

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Nucleic acids are also helping scientists to detect biomarkers, such as Abcam's Fireplex (formerly Firefly) particle technology, which profiles biomarker microRNAs (miRNAs) directly from biofluid samples, without RNA purification.

«It is the only known nucleic acid platform for treating such ailments and constitutes a new pipeline of therapeutics to address a broad swath of debilitating health conditions.»

Using a combination of old - fashioned clinical observation and modern biochemical analysis, he has shown that a person's appetite and their eating behavior can be linked to specific genes — and that even a tiny defect such as the absence of a single nucleic acid in a sequence of DNA can lead to runaway weight gain.

These improvements push the boundaries of nucleic - acid detection and fragment sizing, affecting applications such as single - cell nucleic acid analysis, PCR - free preparation of NGS library preparation, bacterial artificial chromosome clone sizing, and exosome analysis.

The first application of the Helinx technology, the Intercept Blood Systems, exploits the fact that while blood components such as red blood cells, plasma, and platelets do not contain nucleic acids, viruses and bacteria do.

And, given the wide applicability of electrochemical detection to many types of biomolecules, the platform «can be readily extended to the detection of other disease markers such as proteins, metabolites, ions, and nucleic acids,» Liu added.

Now, Wyss Institute researchers led by Church have developed a new suite of such sensors, reported in Nucleic Acids Research journal, that not only increase the number of cellular «switches and levers» that scientists can use for complex genetic re-programming, but also respond to valuable products such as renewable plastics or costly pharmaceuticals and give microbes a voice to report on their own efficiency in making these products.

To see how a size disparity would affect the crystalline order and the system's physical properties, Olvera de la Cruz and postdoctoral fellow Zhenwei Yao devised a model system of soft particles, such as functionalized nanoparticles with grafted chains including nucleic acids or thiols.

The find highlights how ancient viruses can more easily be identified by their proteins than their more commonly studied nucleic acids, such as DNA or RNA.

Genetic therapies, such as those made from DNA or RNA, face challenges because of the difficulty in delivering the nucleic acid to the right cells.

Intrigued by the ability of certain polymers to mop up DNA and RNA for gene transfer, Sullenger and colleagues tested the idea that these chemical compounds might also be effective targeting such nucleic acids as they arise in cell death.

Biochemistry is the study of the structure and function of cellular components, such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and other biomolecules.

Nitrogen is a key constituent of biological molecules such as amino acids and nucleic acids.

When the researchers added radio - labelled arsenate to the solution to track its distribution, they found that arsenic was present in the cellular fractions containing the bacterium's proteins, lipids and metabolites such as ATP and glucose, as well as in the nucleic acids that made up its DNA and RNA.

Jörg brings over 17 years» experience in drug discovery and development across key areas such as oncology, infectious diseases, vaccinology, and autoimmunity, with a focus on peptide and nucleic acid - based therapeutics.

Large - scale and effective studies of biological molecules with a different structural basis such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids and numerous metabolites (including e.g. fatty acids, amino acids, purines, pyrimidines or steroids) is currently highly attractive because of the availability of modern instruments and tools for both separation and analysis (2 - D chromatographs, capillary electrophoresis systems, microfluidics, mass spectrometers, powerful NMR spectrometers, DNA / RNA arrays and others).

Here we present fCCAC, an application of functional canonical correlation analysis to assess covariance of nucleic acid sequencing datasets such as chromatin immunoprecipitation followed by deep sequencing (ChIP - seq).

However, being a complex multistep process, cancer cytogenetics are broadened to «cytogenomics,» with complementary resources on: general databases (nucleic acid and protein sequences databases; cartography browsers: GenBank, RefSeq, UCSC, Ensembl, UniProtKB, and Entrez Gene), cancer genomic portals associated with recent international integrated programs, such as TCGA or ICGC, other fusion genes databases, array CGH databases, copy number variation databases, and mutation databases.

Functions typically attributed to folded proteins occur inside, such as binding and selectively concentrating single - stranded over double - stranded nucleic acids.

Pine Pollen is also rich in more exotic, albeit vitally important, compounds such as nucleic acids (DNA - repairing fragments) and superoxide dismutase, a powerful antioxidant and cell protectant, among many others.

Such enzymes will break down sugars, nucleic acids, amino acids, and fatty acids so that they are more easily assimilated into the body.

Biochemistry has wide scope and deals with diverse topics, such as molecular genetics, the structure and function of nucleic acids, proteins, and lipids, enzymology, metabolism and bioenergetics, hormones and vitamins and the specialized biochemistry of specific organisms or tissues such as muscle or the brain.