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Reactive Reports
September 2005
David Bradley |
When Good Turns Bad Prions, the protein-like pathogens at the heart of the fatal brain disorder CJD, so-called mad cow disease, and related diseases can rapidly "remodel" good proteins into bad, according to US scientists, who have demonstrated this for the first time in living cells.   |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Richard Saltus |
A Silver Lining Sure, some prions can cause diseases, but others are turning out to be beneficial. |
Chemistry World
January 17, 2011
James Urquhart |
BSE pathogens passed on by air It was generally thought that prions were not transmitted by air, but now scientists have confirmed an airborne route to infection. |
Chemistry World
May 9, 2007
James Mitchell Crow |
Controlling prion folding US scientists report that prions, infamously linked to mad cow disease, have crucial subsections that control their behavior, including whether or not they can cross between species. |
Chemistry World
August 12, 2011
Manisha Lalloo |
Unraveling cell membranes to understand drugs Researchers in Sweden have found a way to create flattened cell membranes, known as supported lipid bilayers, out of real cell structures. |
Nutra Solutions
April 1, 2005 |
Mad Cow May Help Solve Alzheimer's Alberta will spend millions to combat Mad Cow Disease, which may possibly aid the research efforts to understand Alzheimer's Disease. |
Chemistry World
June 14, 2011 |
A New Spin on Protein NMR A new technique will allow researchers to study protein structure in greater detail using NMR. |
Chemistry World
October 9, 2011
Simon Hadlington |
New probe throws light on cellular lipids Scientists in the US have developed a new sensor that can track and measure lipids in living cells. |
Chemistry World
May 30, 2006
Michael Gross |
A Physiological Role for Healthy Prions Researchers have shown that the healthy version of the scrapie pathogen helps maintain the optimum concentration of copper ions in the cell. |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005
Arlene Weintraub |
Mad Cow's Stubborn Mystery Scientists still know far too little about the disease -- and the feds are making rules in the dark. Many uncertainties are in the spotlight right now as the Agriculture Dept. prepares to resume trading of some live cows and packaged beef with Canada. |
Chemistry World
April 9, 2008
Mark Peplow |
vCJD filter for blood could be in use 'by summer' ProMetic's prion filter, attached to a blood pack, is being marketed by French medical equipment company MacoPharma to clean blood of the proteins responsible for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). |
Chemistry World
July 6, 2007
Michael Gross |
Predicting How Proteins Fold Researchers in Italy and the UK have now developed a computational approach that can simulate the folding of membrane proteins in atomic detail. |
Chemistry World
August 26, 2008
Fred Campbell |
High-throughput protein microarrays on the way A new method to rapidly generate protein microarrays has been developed by UK researchers at the University of Manchester. |
Chemistry World
March 23, 2009
Nina Notman |
First auto carbohydrate synthesiser German researchers have unveiled the first fully automated carbohydrate synthesizer, which they hope will advance development of carbohydrate-based vaccines for the developing world. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 51
David Bradley |
Protein Crystals Trapped Researchers have developed a new technique for crystallizing proteins, which could open up a whole range of materials to this powerful analytical technique. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2011
Michele Solis |
Right Before Your Eyes Coupling protein sequence to function, thousands of variants at a time. |
Chemistry World
February 2012 |
Column: The crucible To understand the chemical choreography of the cell, we must acknowledge the bustling biomolecular ballroom in which it takes place, says Philip Ball |
Chemistry World
August 24, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
'Chemical nose' sensor sniffs blood protein profile US scientists have developed a sensor system for profiling the protein content of human blood serum without needing individual receptors for each separate protein. |
Bio-IT World
April 16, 2004
Robert Frederickson |
Trial Separations Protein separation through the digital ProteomeChip microchip takes merely minutes, resulting in significantly increased productivity. |
Bio-IT World
June 12, 2002
Mark D. Uehling |
Putting Proteins in Their Place Will a 'periodic table' of proteins help classify the ungainly beasts? |
Chemistry World
June 25, 2013
Michael Gross |
A foaming protein from the horse's mouth Researchers in the UK have solved the structure of this protein, yielding tantalizing hints to a novel kind of surface activity and to evolutionary connections to other examples. |
