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Scientists Identified the Role of Osteopontin for Mesenchymal Stem Cells
As a kind of stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) play an important role in the repair of damaged tissue due to its differentiation potential, and it has broad application prospects in the field of regenerative medicine. In recent years, many studies agree that the MSCs in bone marrow are
A Novel Biomarker for Metabolic Dysfunction and New Hope for Obesity—Protein PAR2
In studies, scientists confirmed that the amount of inflammatory protein PAR2 in overweight/obese humans’ and mice’s abdominal adipose tissue show abnormality and they found the common fatty acids in the diet will increase the expression of PAR2 on the surface of human immune
Hybridoma Offers a Powerful Solution for Monoclonal Antibodies
Since the first description of the hybridoma technology in 1970s, it has been bound to enormous promise for clinical uses and the discoverer also shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1984 because of this. With the feature of producing pure and indefinite antibodies, the
Does Immune Response Depend on the Solar Cycle?
It is known that mammalian circadian clock is affected by environmental factors, such as the sunrise and sunset and the sunset drives the daily rhythm of an individual. However, thanks to new research published in the international journal Science, researchers now know that the circadian clock
Learn More about Protein Structure Evolution with “Ancient” Proteins
Several months ago, researchers found something that will enlighten people’s understanding on the course of protein structure evolution and give new ideas on the novel protein design in protein engineering and biotechnology. Under the existing conditions, researchers usually only have the
Biomolecular Finding: New Toxic-antitoxic System May Help to Inspire New Antibiotics
The picture shows DnaN in complex with a peptide from DNA polymerase III. The toxin SocB likely disrupts this complex to arrest DNA replication by binding a region of DnaN near the residue marked in green. One of the reasons leading to tricky control of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is the
A Potential Way to Measure Injury with the Help of Protein Xin
In a recent study, scientists found a protein that can only be detected after muscle damage due to kinds of reasons, for example trauma, intensive exercise injury and disease. The protein is associated with the degree of damage. The protein is Xin, a muscle-specific actin binding protein.
Tips for Choosing Antibodies at Creative BioMart
Creative BioMart offers thousands of antibodies to meet different research requirements. And choosing the right one from them could be problematic, especially for a new customer or a novel protein or application. Generally, there are three overall categories in Creative BioMart: monoclonal,
Things You May Would Like to Know about Recombinant Antibodies
What is a Recombinant Antibody? A recombinant antibody is an antibody that combines genetic material from two or more sources, produced with the help of specific technology, such as recombinant DNA technology. During the process, a fragment of DNA is inserted into yeast, virus, CHO cell, E.
A Summary of Characteristics of the Bio-pharmaceutical Industry
Bill Gates once predicted that the next richest man in the world replacing him will come from genetic area. With the advancement of modern biotechnology, bio-pharmaceutical industry is getting more and more achievements. Here, I’d like to sum the characteristics of the bio-pharmaceutical
Scientists Successfully Decode the Structure of Protein LIMP-2
It was unknown for people the structure and functions of protein LIMP-2 during the past days. We only know it is both important for humans and animals and it was mostly found in the lysosomes of the cells where it ensures that a specific enzyme reaches them. Recently a Germany chemist reveals what
Nature Reports Reveal that MX2 is Also a Powerful Inhibitor for HIV-1
People have known that protein MX1 can suppress the replication of RNA and DNA viruses, HIV-1 in human body, for example for many years, but MX2 was ineffective against influenza virus. Now two reports revealed on Nature that protein MX2 also has the similar but different ability. The report said
New Finding on Recombinant Human Prion Protein
Through research, researchers found that recombinant human prion protein can effectively block the spread of prions, which offers hope and ideas for the prevention and treatment of prion diseases. The research was published in the International Journal of Scientific Reports. One of the
Bladder Cancer-related Gene Mutation was Identified
The finding comes from an international research associated with bladder carcinoma-related gene mutation. In some way, the finding stresses the importance of genetic test for prevention. The research was later published on Nature Genetics. During the study, researchers found that STAG2 is the
Scientists Identified the Special Receptor of Baculovirus for the First Time
Previous studies have identified baculovirus receptors. But recently a report recorded an important finding how baculovirus entered and interacted with human cells. The novel receptor is syndecan- 1 receptor. The study provides some ideas for the understanding of virus-induced baculovirus
DNA Methylation—the Hot “Candidate” of 2013 Nobel Prize
The annual Nobel Prize feast is approaching and the whole science field is eager to celebrate laurels and DNA Methylation is one of the expected laurels. DNA methylation is a form of chemical modification of DNA. In the condition of non-DNA code change, it changes individual’ genetic
Nature: New Finding on Gene MX2 Brings Clue to Against HIV
Our knowledge about Gene MX2 is poorly understood. Now researchers found a new potential of anti-HIV. Magazine Nature published the latest new finding on anti-HIV. This is the first time that researchers identified the impact of gene MX2 on HIV toxicity. With current remedies, HIV carrier can
Scientists Found New Role of Deacetylase SIRT1
In previous studies, deacetylase SIRT1 has been identified the ability to repair damaged DNA. In addition to this, scientists recently found a new “ability” of SIRT1—help to stable the genomes of experimental mice with neurodegenerative diseases, for example, Alzheimer's disease
New Finding about Protein Reelin
According to routine assumption, taking away a protein would lead to the same consequence as taking the protein’s receptors that it acts on. But recently a study result did not support the assumption. It is identified that glycoprotein Reelin is crucial to the development of healthy neural
Effective Monoclonal Antibodies: Solve the Problems in Preparation
As a key driving force for biotechnology industry, therapeutic antibodies are safe and effective to against cancer, autoimmune diseases and infectious diseases in terms of targeted therapy. In 2011, the worldwide sale of therapeutic antibodies reached $64.57 billion, accounting for 51.8% of
How Protein Rab is Extracted from Lipid Membrane
In past researches, protein Rab was studied in a solution without a lipid membrane. Now scientists have traced the process with lipid membrane. Ras proteins regulate cell growth, while Rab GTPases control the traffic between different cell sections. During the process, Rab GTPases, or Rab
Novel Method for Detection of Ovarian Cancer Might Launch Soon
Ovarian cancer is considered to be the most difficult to detect in kinds of cancers. It is difficult to note or detect at early cancer stage, if pain occurs, people might treat it as other symptoms as often been mistaken for other diseases. This makes cancer prevention and control very
Lipid-based Protein Immobilization—A Novel Membrane Protein Research Tool
Lipid-based Protein Immobilization, or LPI, allows for immobilization and work-up of intact, native membrane proteins. Lipid-based Protein Immobilization allows immobilization of cell vesicles with intact, conformationally correct membrane proteins in their native state. Because the membranes
Virus-specific Antibody—New Clue to against Norovirus Infection
The picture shows its X-ray crystallographic structure It could be said that norovirus was identified in 1972 and got its current name—norovirus in 2002 approved by ICTV. Noroviruses (NoV), Caliciviridae family, are a genetically diverse group of single-stranded RNA, non-enveloped
Genetically Modified Food: What Kind of Attitude should We Hold toward?
Reported by Creative BioMart, a Recombinant Proteins, Antibodies, ELISA kits supplier According to a previous survey published on New York Times, over thirty percent participants expressed their worries about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) as they concerned that this kinds of food might
