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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 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 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.
Reactive Reports Issue 75 David Bradley	Chasing Down Mad Cows Researchers in Europe have tracked down the molecular anchor that hooks errant and infectious prions leading to mad cow disease in sheep.
Chemistry World May 12, 2008 Simon Hadlington	'Super-yeast' tackles unnatural proteins Researchers in the US have engineered yeast cells to produce large amounts of proteins containing unnatural amino acids (UAAs) - a feat that has previously only been possible with bacteria.
HHMI Bulletin Winter 2013 Nicole Kresge	A Structural Revolution Over the years, scientists and artists have used an assortment of techniques to showcase molecular structure.
Bio-IT World June 12, 2002 Karen Hopkin	Computational Biologists Join the Fold CASP5 competitors compare the best algorithms for modeling the 3-D structure of proteins -- an exercise that could lead to new insights into the pathogenesis and treatment of disease.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Ingfei Chen	Same But Not Equal A code within the genetic code explains why identical proteins are produced at varying speeds.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Nicole Kresge	Locating a Genetic Glitch A team of 41 scientists led by HHMI investigator Louis Ptacek has pinpointed the gene responsible for a rare disease that causes sudden, uncontrollable movements. The culprit is a little known protein that may be responsible for communication between neurons.
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.
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?
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Michele Solis	Right Before Your Eyes Coupling protein sequence to function, thousands of variants at a time.
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 Halleh B. Balch	Like a Chinese Finger Trap In neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, the needle-like fibers that accumulate in the brain are not the real damage-doers. The culprits are intermediate protein structures, called small amyloid oligomers, made of a few proteins that misfold and aggregate.
Bio-IT World July 15, 2003 Julia Boguslavsky	'Fingerprinting' a Single Cell Single-cell proteomics is finally within reach, thanks to a professor of analytical chemistry.
Chemistry World November 2006 Philip Ball	Opinion: The Crucible Here are some of the latest instalments in the ongoing story of how protein misfolding causes neurodegenerative diseases -- a story that is not solely about developing clinical treatments or preventative medicines, but which goes to the heart of proteins' role as the stuff of life.
Chemistry World June 2, 2006 Jon Evans	Axons Get Directions Scientists are a step closer to understanding the processes that control the growth and spread of nerve cells, following the discovery of a protein complex that directs the transport of building material to growing axons.
Chemistry World December 21, 2006 Henry Nicholls	Silent SNPs Serve up a Structural Surprise The sequence of amino acids no longer dictates the structure and function of a protein according to a surprising new paper.
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Chemistry World April 30, 2007 Victoria Gill	Amyloid Protein Seen to Zip Together Amyloid proteins' long, complicated structure makes them tricky to study, but U.S. researchers have found that they share a common feature that could provide a drug target for an array of incurable conditions.
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Chemistry World March 27, 2014 James Urquhart	Synthetic yeast chromosome is fully functional The first complete and functional synthetic yeast chromosome has been created by a team of scientists based in the US.
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).
Prepared Foods February 2008 Sharon Book	Article: Protein Ingredients for Health and Texture A variety of soy, dairy and egg proteins are available for the food formulator to obtain the desired texture in a food or beverage.
Chemistry World November 13, 2014 Katrina Kramer	Persuading proteins to form porous polyhedra Researchers in the US have designed a hollow cube out of naturally occurring proteins, something that was previously only possible with DNA.
Chemistry World October 2, 2012 Fiona McKenzie	Protein sorting within cells US scientists have used magnetic nanoparticles with specific ligands to latch on to and visualize specific proteins in living cells.
Chemistry World December 5, 2007 Ananyo Bhattacharya	Structural Snapshot Shows Monster Protein A structural snapshot of a protein capsule has revealed details of the largest cellular component ever imaged by x-ray crystallography.
Science News June 11, 2005 Christen Brownlee	Calories May Not Count in Life Extension A team of researchers has shown in fruit flies that shifting a diet's relative amounts of nutrients, such as carbohydrates, protein, and fat, while only modestly cutting calories, extends life span just as much as a drastic calorie cut does.
Chemistry World September 14, 2011 David Bradley	Brewing up Synthetic Yeast Yeast with synthetic genomes could be very useful for medicinal chemists and drug companies.
Chemistry World October 24, 2008 Hayley Birch	Proteins swap partners UK researchers have discovered that proteins which use metal cofactors can be surprisingly promiscuous metal binders, happily taking up the 'wrong' metal.
Reactive Reports May 2007 David Bradley	A Scent for Explosives A new type of biosensor based on yeast, jellyfish proteins, and a rat's sense of smell could sniff out explosives, landmines, and agents, such as sarin gas, according to researchers.
Bio-IT World August 15, 2005 Robert M. Frederickson	What's 'Post' About Postgenomic? Bioinformatics tools can help organize and study genomic sequences that were discovered in the '90s. The tools help with tasks like analyzing gene expression, predicting protein structure and function, and establishing networks of interacting protein in cells.
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Chemistry World September 25, 2009 Simon Hadlington	New MRI protein probe Researchers in Japan have invented a new way to detect the presence of proteins in cells and tissues by magnetic resonance imaging.
Chemistry World November 27, 2013 Jennifer Newton	A cytochrome from scratch Artificial proteins could be closer to participating in natural biochemical pathways after researchers show that bacteria will process amino acid sequences entirely unrelated to any natural protein to produce a fully functioning cytochrome.
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.
Science News October 14, 2006 Ivars Peterson	Knots in Proteins Knotted proteins are rare, but more than just random occurrences. The secret of spontaneous knotting lies in the mathematics of self-avoiding random walks.
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.
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.
Nutra Solutions March 11, 2007 Kerry Hughes	NutraSolutions' New Products Annual -- Proteins & Peptides We may be seeing only the beginning of new product development involving proteins.
Bio-IT World October 10, 2003 Jeffrey Skolnick	Protein Structure Prediction in Drug Discovery Indications are that structure prediction can assist in the automated assignment of proteins to known pathways.
Chemistry World October 8, 2008 Sarah Houlton	Artificial protein chemistry licensed to industry UK researchers are licensing to industry their method of making artificial proteins by chemically modifying individual amino acid structures.
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Prepared Foods August 14, 2006 Marcia A. Wade	Protein Proposals American adults should get 10% to 35% of their calories from protein. Here are a few ways they can do that.