As of December 2013 90 solved structures were available in the PubMed structural database related to the CRISPR Cas System! -.- A few these models are shown below! A PubMed search for “CRISPR Cas” showed that close to 90 solved… Read More ›
Proteins
Highlighted Reports on the CRISPR Cas System!
Selected papers for CRISPR Cas! Segal and Meckler in 2013 state in ‘Genome Engineering at the Dawn of the Golden Age,’ that, “In summary, compared with ZFNs, TALENs can be designed for more targets, are more likely to be active… Read More ›
How do we taste or smell odors?
The taste of sugars amino acids, peptides, nucleotides, and proteins “Analytical Services” Taste and smell are chemical senses that give us humans and many animals information about the chemical composition that surround us and are part of our nearest environment. … Read More ›
What is “3-phosphoglyceryl-lysine or pgK”?
“3-phosphoglyceryl-lysine or pgK” is a newly discovered functional protein modification! The more scientists look the more they find ! . Can this new functional amino acid modification provide insights in the causes of diabetes, cancer, and other metabolic disorders in… Read More ›
Why are some infections with certain flu virus strains fatal and others are not?
The answer may be found in human CD4+ T cells Virus specific memory CD4+ T cells numbers predict the outcome of human influenza infections Wilkinson et al. in 2012 showed that CD4+ T cells that are activated by earlier influenza virus… Read More ›
Peptides for Influenza Research
Synthetic peptides are versatile tools to help develop vaccines against new Influenza A viral strains Pools or libraries of synthetic peptides derived from Influenza A viral proteins can be used to screen for and identify human leukocyte class I (HLA-I)… Read More ›
Tales of Genes and Proteins
Implications of the Human Genome Project The human genome project revealed that the human genome contains approximately 26,000 to 38,000 genes that code for proteins. This is significantly fewer than had been previously anticipated. It was found that protein-coding sequences… Read More ›
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