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Life’s Building Blocks
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Life’s Building Blocks
Aug 25, 2020
Sorting out the sugar
Cancer cells and non-cancer cells within a single tumor use nutrients…
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Feb 28, 2020
Reading changes in histones to screen for drugs
A new machine learning system for drug screening reads…
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Feb 3, 2020
A two-faced phosphatase
Phosphatases often prevent cells from becoming cancerous, but they can also do…
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Oct 2, 2019
Re-purposing the growth factor VEGF-C
The search for the enzymes that activate the growth factor…
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Sep 21, 2019
The many shapes of the SETD8 protein
Combining X-ray crystallography with computational approaches…
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Aug 15, 2019
Ribosomes, assemble!
Cryo-electron microscopy reveals the mechanism that constructs the ribosome site…
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Aug 12, 2019
Defensin on the attack
A small protein that fights off bacterial infections can also battle against…
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Jul 14, 2019
A new way of fixing DNA breaks with PALB2
The protein PALB2 helps repair breaks in the genome in an…
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May 4, 2019
The signals that shape the pituitary gland
The Hippo signalling pathway is required for the pituitary…
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Apr 10, 2019
Bittersweet migrations
A type of sugar modification in proteins may help cancer cells invade new…
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