Science news articles about 'therapeutic proteins'

  • Candy-coating keeps proteins sweet

    ... -frosting isn’t just for livening up boring bran flakes; it can also preserve important therapeutic proteins. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a ...
  • Candy-coating keeps proteins sweet

    ... -frosting isn't just for livening up boring bran flakes; it can also preserve important therapeutic proteins. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a ...
  • Tailor-made recombinant proteins in mammals

    ... of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley. Many therapeutic proteins, including insulin for diabetes, can be made in bacterial systems like ...
  • Penn biologists discover how 'silent' mutations influence protein production

    ... optimized genes will produce larger amounts of therapeutic proteins while keeping the transgenic, carrier ... human genome contains more than 20,000 genes that encode the proteins present in a human body ...
  • Biotechnology: Moss Can Produce Human Proteins

    Researchers have shown that mosses and humans share unexpected common characteristics. These evolutionary relics could be useful in the production of therapeutic proteins.
  • Biochemical 'on-switch' could solve protein purification challenge

    ... of a strainer. Then the team uses engineered cells to generate mass quantities of a potentially therapeutic protein, each copy of which has a subtilisin sheath attached to it. After harvesting these ...
  • Breakthrough In Plant Medicine Production

    ... the glycosylation of proteins in plants. The scientists expect that this knowledge will allow plants to be applied more often in the production of therapeutic proteins, an important type of medicine.
  • Structural biology spin-out tackles major diseases

    ... structural biology, Asterion Ltd., has led to new technology that provides a way of creating therapeutic proteins to tackle major diseases such as cancer, diabetes and infertility. The research was ...
  • Structural Biology Spin-out Tackles Major Diseases

    A spin off company from basic structural biology has led to new technology that provides a way of creating therapeutic proteins to tackle major diseases such as cancer, diabetes and infertility.
  • Novel bioreactor enhances interleukin-12 production in genetically-modified tobacco plants

    ... ," Weathers says. "There is no interaction with the environment, and once we've collected the therapeutic proteins grown in the roots, all the remaining material is safely destroyed." Traditional ...
  • Tobacco makes medicine

    ... tobacco plants. According to Pezzotti, "Transgenic plants are attractive systems for the production of therapeutic proteins because they offer the possibility of large scale production at low cost, ...
  • Nanodiamonds deliver insulin for wound healing

    ... by the journal Biomaterials. "This study introduces the concept of nanodiamond-mediated release of therapeutic proteins," said Dean Ho, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and mechanical ...
  • Genetically engineered bacteria are sweet success against IBD

    ... of a drink. "This is the first time that anyone has been able to control a therapeutic protein in a living system using something that can be eaten," said Professor Simon Carding of the Institute ...
  • Promise of nanodiamonds for safer gene therapy

    ... delivery and subsequently discovered that the nanodiamonds also are extremely effective at delivering therapeutic proteins. Their work further has shown that nanodiamonds can sustain delivery while ...
  • New discovery reveals fate of nanoparticles in human cells

    ... : "One of the promising applications of nanoparticles in medicine is to use them as a method to deliver therapeutic protein molecules inside cells. For these biological therapies to be effective the ...

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