A preparation, similar to the light mitochondrial fraction of rat liver (L fraction of de Duve et al. [1955, Biochem. J. 60: 604-617]), was subfractionated by isopycnic centrifugation in a metrizamide ...

A method for the preparation of HeLa cell plasma membrane ghosts is described. The purity of the plasma membrane fraction was examined by phase contrast and electron microscopy, by chemical analysis, ...

Enzyme hunters at UiO have discovered the function of an enzyme that is important in the spreading of cancer. Cancer researchers now hope to inhibit the enzyme. Enzyme hunters at UiO have discovered ...

Hormones are secreted by some tumors. Some of the examples are insulin being secreted by the tumor of the islet cell and calcitonin by the medullary thyroid carcinoma. In some cases, the hormones are ...

In a series of lab experiments designed to unravel the workings of a key enzyme widely considered a possible trigger of rheumatoid arthritis, researchers have found that in the most severe cases of ...

In a paper published on aBIOTECH, the authors introduce BacPhase, a sequence-based phasing method that uses restriction ...

Cardio vascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Most of the deaths occur even before a patient reaches the hospital for treatment. Cardiac markers are biomarkers which are ...

Across large population studies, people who live into their nineties and beyond keep showing up with the same quiet signature ...