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Scientists find different cell types contain the same enzyme ratios
Read more: Scientists find different cell types contain the same enzyme ratiosNew discovery suggest that all life may share a common design principle. By studying bacteria and yeast, researchers at MIT have discovered that vastly different types of cells still share fundamental similarities, conserved across species and refined over time. More specifically, these cells contain the same proportion of specialized proteins, known as enzymes, which coordinate…
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Exploring the many roles of mucus
Read more: Exploring the many roles of mucusKatharina Ribbeck studies the sticky substance to uncover its impacts on health and disease. In 2007, Katharina Ribbeck spent a year as a visiting scientist at Harvard Medical School. While there, she heard about a fellowship offered at Harvard that would provide the recipient with a lab, startup funding, and status as an independent investigator.…
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Researchers identify important role for gene in 16p11.2 deletion autism
Read more: Researchers identify important role for gene in 16p11.2 deletion autismStudy finds that major vault protein is needed for homeostatic plasticity. In a new study of one of the most common genetic causes of autism, neuroscientists at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have identified a molecular mechanism that appears to undermine the ability of neurons in affected mice to properly incorporate changes driven…
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