Researchers have discovered a new application for tropical and popular aquarium fish, Zebrafish - it can now be used to study COX deficiencies in humans.Researchers at the University of Oregon claim that their finding has opened an unparalleled pathway to examine the earliest stages of mitochondrial impairments that lead to potentially fatal metabolic disorders.
COX deficiencies [...]
A team of US researchers has created a new form of an enzyme that has the capability of producing a range of potential new therapeutic agents with anticancer and antibiotic properties.Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy say that the novel enzyme is capable of changing the chemical properties of a variety of [...]
Stanford researchers have developed a molecular probe that lights up tumours cells in animals, improving diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other diseases.The probe’s main ingredient is a molecule that labels active proteases, which are protein-destroying enzymes that run in cancerous cells. The molecule is usually invisible to the naked eye but it has a [...]
A new study has revealed that there exists inside each cell a little engine called RNA polymerase which scans the cell for DNA damage. When certain types of damage in DNA stop the action of RNA polymerase II, a stress signal is created that cautions a key tumour-suppressor protein called p53.
The activities of p53, a [...]
A new study has given people another good reason to lose all that extra weight by finding that fat in the stomach may cause vitamin C to promote the formation of certain cancer causing chemicals rather than preventing it. As a part of their study the researchers set out to find the impact of fat [...]