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Wasps & Bumble Bees Heat Up, Fly Faster With Protein-Rich Food

Good pollen makes bees hot, biologists at UC San Diego have found. Wasps warm up too when they find protein-rich meat, a separate experiment has shown.

Wasps & Bumble Bees Heat Up, Fly Faster With Protein-Rich Food

Newswise - Good pollen makes bees hot, biologists at UC San Diego have found. Wasps warm up too when they find protein-rich meat, a separate experiment has shown.

Wasps and bumble bees heat up, fly faster with protein-rich food

Good pollen makes bees hot, biologists at UC San Diego have found. Wasps warm up too when they find protein-rich meat, a separate experiment has shown.

Wasps And Bumble Bees Heat Up, Fly Faster With Protein-rich Food

Good pollen makes bees hot, biologists at UC San Diego have found. Wasps warm up too when they find protein-rich meat, a separate experiment has shown.

New DVD From FSA For Food Safety For Businesses

Caterers and food retailers will now have extra help in achieving the right standards in food hygiene and giving extra confidence to their customers.The Food Standards Agency, the UK’s food regulator, has produced a new DVD for food businesses that aims to provide an additional route for accessing up-to-date guidance on safe methods for food preparation, handling and storage.

Deconstructing Green Fluorescent Protein

Green fluorescent protein (GFP) has been reassembled from two pieces, a large fragment 214 amino acids in length that is produced recombinantly (GFP 1−10) and a short synthetic peptide corresponding to the 11th stave of the β-barrel that is 16 amino acids long (synthetic GFP 11), following a system developed by Waldo and co-workers (Cabantous, S.; et al. Nat. Biotechnol. 2005, 23, 102−7) as an in vivo probe for protein association and folding. We demonstrate that the reassembled protein has identical absorption and excited-state proton transfer dynamics as a whole protein of the identical sequence. We show that the reassembled protein can be taken apart and the peptide replaced with a different synthetic peptide designed to perturb the chromophore absorption.

Protein folding: terahertz absorption spectroscopy detects changes in protein-water network

(Nanowerk News) Water is no passive spectator of biological processes; it is an active participant. Protein folding is thus a self-organized process in which the actions of the solvent play a key role. So far, the emphasis in studies of protein folding processes has been on observation of the protein backbone and its side chains.

Natural Foods Enthusiast Starts Organic Food 365 Blog

The Organic Food 365 Blog readers can stay abreast of the latest Natural Food issues and Organic Food news and topics like Kosher Organic Food and appropriate organic gifts.

Native Conformation at Specific Residues in Recombinant Inclusion Body Protein in Whole Cells Determined with Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy

Inclusion bodies are insoluble aggregates that are formed by bacteria to store excess recombinant protein produced during expression. The structure of the protein in inclusion bodies is poorly understood but it has been hypothesized that the protein may form misfolded β sheet aggregates. This paper presents an isotopic labeling and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance approach to determine the secondary structure of individual residues within a recombinant influenza virus “FHA2� protein in inclusion bodies. The inclusion bodies were studied either in the context of the unlysed hydrated E. coli cells or in the hydrated pellet formed from centrifugation of the material insoluble in the cell lysate. The native structure of FHA2 is predominantly helical and native helical structure was also observed for several specific residues in the

Guest Blogger: Foodie Rachel

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N-MYC promotes cell proliferation through a direct transactivation of neuronal leucine-rich repeat protein-1 (NLRR1) gene in neuroblastoma

N-MYC promotes cell proliferation through a direct transactivation of neuronal leucine-rich repeat protein-1 (NLRR1) gene in neuroblastoma

Amino Acid Selective Cross-Saturation Method for Identification of Proximal Residue Pairs in a Protein'Protein Complex

Amino Acid Selective Cross-Saturation Method for Identification of Proximal Residue Pairs in a Protein−Protein Complex

Wild food safety DVD helps hunters and gatherers

Food Safety Minister Lianne Dalziel and the New Zealand Food Safety Authority today teamed up with Wellington wild foodie restaurant Logan Brown to launch a new DVD and two booklets aimed at advising hunters and gatherers how to ensure the food they catch, store and eat is safe for consumption.

Bees Help Detectives Catch Serial Killers

Hugh Pickens writes "The way bumblebees search for food could help detectives hunt down serial killers — because just as bees forage some distance away from their hives, so murderers avoid killing near their homes, says a University of London research team. The researchers' analysis describes how bees create a 'buffer zone' around their hive where they will not forage, to reduce the risk of predators and parasites locating the nest. This behavior pattern is similar to the geographic profile of criminals stalking their victims. 'Most murders happen close to the killer's home, but not in the area directly surrounding a criminal's house, where crimes are less likely to be committed because of the fear of getting caught by someone they know,' says Dr.

Protein Science

This journal publishes full-length original research, peer reviews, and book reviews on all scientific aspects of protein molecules. Significant advancements relating to the chemical, biophysical, and recombinant determination of protein structure have been reported in Protein Science.

Industry still wary about nano in food: Leatherhead

Nervousness about nanotechnology in food in Britain may see the UK food industry left behind, warns an expert from Leatherhead Food International.

Industry still wary about nano in food: Leatherhead

Nervousness about nanotechnology in food in Britain may see the UK food industry left behind, warns an expert from Leatherhead Food International.

Industry still wary about nano in food: Leatherhead

Nervousness about nanotechnology in food in Britain may see the UK food industry left behind, warns an expert from Leatherhead Food International.

Industry still wary about nano in food: Leatherhead

Nervousness about nanotechnology in food in Britain may see the UK food industry left behind, warns an expert from Leatherhead Food International.

Penn Study Finds Way to Prevent Protein Clumping Characteristic of Parkinson's Disease

Researchers have identified a protein from a most unlikely source--baker's yeast--that might protect against Parkinson's disease. By introducing the yeast protein Hsp104 into animal models of Parkinson's disease, researchers prevented protein clumping that leads to nerve cell death, characteristic of the disorder. Full story

Win BlackBerry smartphones with heat magazine's brand-new website

Over the past six months editorial staff at heat have devoted time and energy to creating a constantly updated website at heat.co.za, where all the latest-breaking celebrity news could be accommodated immediately. After all, heat's positioning as South Africa's premier celebrity news brand means it needs to be number one in print as well as digital.

Modernising the rules on food additives and labelling of azo dyes

MEPs updated and simplified EU rules for authorising food additives, flavourings and enzymes with the European Parliament adopting a legislative package on four draft regulations. The new procedures will assist the free movement of food within the EU and will also give better health and consumer protection, including clearer labelling of certain food colourings.

Study Finds Way to Prevent Protein Clumping Characteristic of Parkinson's Disease

Newswise - Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified a protein from a most unlikely source -- baker's yeast -- that might protect against Parkinson's disease. More than a million Americans suffer from Parkinson's disease, and no treatments are available that fundamentally alter the course of the condition. By introducing the yeast protein Hsp104 into animal models of Parkinson's disease, researchers prevented protein clumping that leads to nerve cell death characteristic of the disorder.

Consumers more likely to accept nanoparticles in packaging over food - study

Consumers have fewer concerns over packaging using nanoparticles than food utilizing the same technology, according to new study. The goal of the study from ETH Zurich's Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED), which was published in the journal Appetite, was to identify which food applications are more likely to be accepted by the public and which ones less likely. The researchers argue that it is important to take public views of nanotechnology into account at its early stage of development to avoid some of the problems that genetically modified (GM) technology has been faced with. They claim that their findings can help identify the food applications for which future public debates on nanotechnology could focus on.

Wrigley Science Institute executive director receives prestigious food technology career award

CHICAGO, July 21, 2008 – Gilbert A. Leveille, PhD, executive director of the Wrigley Science Institute (WSI) has been selected as the 2008 recipient of the prestigious Institute of Food Technologists' Nicholas Appert Award, one of the highest honors in food science and technology. Dr. Leveille received this lifetime achievement award at the 2008 IFT Annual Meeting and Food Expo on June 29, 2008 and joined an esteemed panel of Nicholas Appert Award recipients that has spanned 65 years.

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