Sentences with phrase «producing useful proteins»

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The key to Gather and Yun's biolaser is green fluorescent protein (GFP), a molecule that has proved endlessly useful to biologists since its discovery in the jellyfish Aequorea victoria in the early 1960s, partly because living cells can be so easily programmed to produce it.

For years, scientists have turned to yeast as a quick and inexpensive way to mass - produce proteins for a variety of useful products.

The art of manipulating the genes of living organisms so they will produce medically or industrially useful proteins.

Cornell and Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research scientists have developed a way to produce a protein antigen that may be useful as vaccine for schistosomiasis — a parasitic disease that infects millions of people, mostly in tropical and subtropical climates — according to new research in the journal Protein Expression and Purification, Junprotein antigen that may be useful as vaccine for schistosomiasis — a parasitic disease that infects millions of people, mostly in tropical and subtropical climates — according to new research in the journal Protein Expression and Purification, JunProtein Expression and Purification, June 2017.

The laboratory designs and produces large collections of protein expression plasmids - a resource that is very useful to other scientists around the world.

Because the insertion can be placed so that it interrupts a protein's function, the insertion and repair system may be useful for producing certain pharmaceuticals or protein products, such as cancer drugs, in culture, which would otherwise kill the cell.

Meanwhile, the normal copy of the gene produces a protein that does useful stuff and doesn't cause harm.

NF - kB translates stress by activating genes to produce proteins called cytokines that cause inflammation at cellular level — a reaction that is useful as a short - lived fight - or - flight reaction, but if persistent leads to a higher risk of cancer, accelerated aging and psychiatric disorders like depression.

The undenatured whey protein that proved useful for boosting glutathione and immune function in mice was produced with a single round of «classical» pasteurization at 63 C for 30 minutes, which led to an even greater destruction of serum albumin, resulting in a total loss of 52 percent of the whey's glutathione - boosting power.

Dietary modification (if you can convince the cat to change) is useful even if the cat needs insulin, as the higher protein content of diabetic diets for cats means less work for the insulin - producing cells of the pancreas.