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  Using advanced computer simulations, University of Utah College of Pharmacy researchers have produced moving images of a protein complex that is an important target for anti-cancer drugs. This advancement has significant implications for discovering new therapies that could attack cancer without damaging the DNA of healthy cells, according to an article published July 31, 2012 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . The researchers used high-performance computing technology to demonstrate that a protein complex called LSD1/CoREST undergoes major Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-molecular-movies-anti-cancer-drug-discovery.html#jCp The researchers used high-performance computing technology to demonstrate that a protein complex called LSD1/CoREST undergoes major Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-molecular-movies-anti-cancer-drug-discovery.html#jCp The researchers used high-performance computing technology to demonstrate th...

  Scientists at Aberystwyth University and the University of Cambridge in the UK managed to create world's first robot that can carry out its own experiments, produce hypotheses as well as make scientific discoveries. Researchers dubbed their latest invention Adam.Working on its own, the robot-scientist already managed to find new functions for several genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, also known as brewer's yeast. The lead-researcher of the project is Ross King, a computational biologist at Aberystwyth. He says that up till now Adam made modest findings, but all the discoveries were real. Their latest invention consists of a room equipped with different laboratory instruments. It includes 4 personal computers that work as one brain . In addition, Adam has robot arms, a number of cameras, liquid handlers, incubators and more. Performing the Experiment Scientists gave their latest invention a freezer with a collection of mutant strains of yeast where individual gen...

BOULDER, CO (Ivanhoe Newswire) --Everyone knows the frustration of having a battery die right when you need it. Now researchers have created a new battery with more power, so you can talk, type, or even drive longer. Why it really is the battery that keeps going and going, and going?? They power our phones, our computers, even our cars. But batteries have one big downside, they die! And it’s usually way to soon and at the worst possible time. Chemist Amy Prieto and her colleagues at Colorado State University are working to change that. "If you could make one really good battery, you could put it into a bunch of different areas and really impact people's lives,” Amy Prieto, a chemist at Colorado State University told Ivanhoe. That's just what Prieto did. Calculations predict this prototype battery has a 1,000 higher power density, lasts 10 times longer, can be charged an unlimited amount of times and is a third of the cost of current lithium ion batteries. ...

  A team led by Dr Paul Clarke in the Department of Chemistry at York has re-created a process which could have occurred in the prebiotic world. Working with colleagues at the University of Nottingham, they have made the first step towards showing how simple sugars -- threose and erythrose -- developed. The research is published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry . All biological molecules have an ability to exist as left-handed forms or right-handed forms. All sugars in biology are made up of the right-handed form of molecules and yet all the amino acids that make up the peptides and proteins are made up of the left-handed form. The researchers found using simple left-handed amino acids to catalyse the formation of sugars resulted in the production of predominately right-handed form of sugars. It could explain how carbohydrates originated and why the right-handed form dominates in nature. Dr Clarke said: "There are a lot of fundamental questions about the origins...