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Friday Science Review: May 28, 2010

A Map to Better Beer? The key signaling protein-protein interactions in yeast have been mapped.  Mass spectrometry was used to discover the global network between protein kinases and phosphatases to generate the “kinome” map, which contains 1844 interactions.  Since yeasts are model organisms with similar signaling pathways as in human cells, this information is relevant [...]

Friday Science Review: January 29, 2010

A productive week of international collaborations leading to new drugs or targets… Genetic Map of Yeast: A large-scale, genome-wide interaction map of yeast genes was constructed in an international study.  The extensive network of genetic interactions lays out a functional map of the cell where similar biological processes can be grouped together. Yeast has been [...]

Friday Science Review: November 27, 2009

Two quick reviews on studies addressing Alzheimer’s and lung damage therapy… An ‘- omics’ Study of Lipids in Alzheimer’s Disease: Clues to the underlying molecular mechanisms of amyloid plaque proteins causing Alzheimer’s disease were revealed using a lipidomic method (think broad ‘-omics’ type profiling of lipids).  In diseased tissue, accumulation of certain isoforms or types [...]

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