Besides copper, horseshoe crabs’ blood contains vital immune cells that are incredibly sensitive to toxic bacteria. When these cells come in contact with bacteria, they clot around it, protecting the rest of the horseshoe crab’s body from toxins. Researchers used these smart blood cells to crea...
in which proteins studded with structures called “zinc fingers” recognize a specific DNA sequence and cut it. Cells naturally repair such cuts and, if foreign DNA has also been slipped into the cell, incorporate
Gp43 is a secreted glycoprotein involved in fungal adhesion to epithelial cells and macrophages and is the most studied protein ofParacoccidioides brasiliensis,although other adhesins (moonlighting proteins) are also important to fungal virulence2,4. Gp43 contains regions that drive interactions with la...
muricata, but has also been reported in seeds [52], peel [48] and roots [53]. The contents of acetogenins in leave extracts range from 3.38 to 15.05 mg/g measured by A 1H NMR, while HPLC-MALDI quantified 0.299 mg/g [54]. Acetogenins are considered the main bioactive compounds of the...
In vitro, lyssaviruses can infect most cell types, although the underlying molecular interactions are not completely understood. In the host, lyssaviruses generally infect peripheral nerves (sometimes also muscle cells) at the motor endplate of neuromuscular junctions or at other innervated ...
just a few generations. I’m sure most Creationists would agree that God had a hand in this, and that this was not “natural”. Whether He did this by altering the mutation rate, we have no way of knowing, as mutation rates were not measured at that time and there is no way for ...
PSA is also present in the serum and can be measured reliably by either a monoclonal immunoradiometric assay or a polyclonal radioimmunoassay. The calculated half-life of serum PSA ranges from 2.2 to 3.2 days and the metabolic clearance rate of this tumor marker follows first-order kinetics. ...
(here) which concluded that the highlighted patterns in the withdrawn report are not HIV-specific. According to Gao’s paper, the motifs were also found in at least “100 identical or highly homologous” sequences in “host genes of mammalian, insects, bacterial and others” and also in “...
Growth was impaired for both Prochlorococcus MIT9312 and NATL2A across the full range of HDPE and PVC leachate dilutions tested, as measured by flow cytometric counts of chlorophyll fluorescent cells (Fig. 1). MIT9312 responded more quickly to both HDPE and PVC leachate exposure than NATL2A. ...
Unlike the injection of high concentrations of purely ionic colloidal silver, the production of silver ions with mild silver protein is slow and measured, because it only occurs when a silver atom comes in direct contact with a molecule of oxygen. Think of it as a natural, timed-release ...