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Plants can be Useful for Studying Variable Drug Responses in Humans

September 27, 2007 – 8:52 pm

From Physorg.com.
While prescription medications work successfully to cure an ailment in some people, in others the same dose of the same drug can cause an adverse reaction or no response at all.
According to a research team led by Sean Cutler, an assistant professor of plant cell biology at UC Riverside, such variation in drug responses [...]

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Scientists Unlock Secrets of Protein Folding

September 18, 2007 – 11:43 pm

From Physorg.com.
A team led by biophysicist Jeremy Smith of the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory has taken a significant step toward unraveling the mystery of how proteins fold into unique, three-dimensional shapes. Using ORNL’s Cray XT4 Jaguar supercomputer as well as computer systems in Italy and Germany, the team revealed a [...]

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