New database for vital model organism launched
A new database promises to be an invaluable resource to scientists who use a unique single-celled fungus to study human diseases.
A new database promises to be an invaluable resource to scientists who use a unique single-celled fungus to study human diseases.
Biotechnology
Nov 28, 2011
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine describe for the first time a key target of DNA damage checkpoint enzymes that must be chemically modified to enable stable maintenance of chromosome ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 23, 2011
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A cell's genome maintains its integrity by organizing some of its regions into a super-compressed form of DNA called heterochromatin. In the comparatively simple organism fission yeast, a cellular phenomenon known as RNA ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 13, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Johns Hopkins scientists have revealed a new way that cells respond to the challenge of low oxygen. A report on the discovery about how the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe regulates its genes in hypoxic ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 28, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a cell divides, the genetic information in the chromosomes must be passed on error-free to the daughter cells. Researchers at the Friedrich Miescher Laboratory in Tübingen are studying this process ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 30, 2011
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If there is one thing that recent advances in genomics have revealed, it is that our genes are interrelated, "chattering" to each other across separate chromosomes and vast stretches of DNA. According to researchers at The ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 29, 2010
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The essential chromosomal protein complex cohesin has crucial roles in sister chromatid cohesion, DNA repair and transcriptional regulation. Despite its conserved function, cohesin's disparate association patterns in different ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 19, 2009
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