After specific proteins are identified for further research, they are excised from the gel and treated with a succession of enzymes that cut amino acid chains into short polypeptides about 5-10 amino acids in length. The polypeptide fragments for each...
Understanding the control of cell division is one of the great challenges of biology, for its implications in the generation of multicellular organisms and in proliferative processes such as oncogenesis. The tool to achieve such knowledge used by the...
Understanding the mechanisms of protein production, how and why they fold in a certain way, how they act and interact, and ultimately better understand how they work, is one of the most exciting challenges facing the biomedical sciences. In this sense,...
The human genome sequence has been a breakthrough for modern biology, a milestone similar to the discovery of the structure of the DNA chain or by the assumption that each gene codes for a protein. Despite its importance, and our current view of biology,...
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