http://www.fourmentinguilbert.org Site News daily 1 2009-12-28T16:17:26Z http://www.fourmentinguilbert.org/news/birth-of-the-first-synthetic-cell Craig Venter's team at the J. Craig Venter Institute reports they have synthetized a bacterial chromosome and transferred it into a bacterium, where it replaced the native DNA. Powered by the synthetic genome, the microbial cell began replicating and making a new set of proteins. No publisher nathalie 2010-06-17T16:11:34Z News Item http://www.fourmentinguilbert.org/news/letter-to-uc-faculty-on-nature-publishing-group-subscription-increases A letter dated June 4, 2010 describing exorbitant subscription increases on the part of the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) for the 67 journals UC licenses (including Nature) was distributed to UC faculty by campus librarians. No publisher nathalie 2010-06-10T08:43:59Z News Item http://www.fourmentinguilbert.org/birth-of-the-first-synthetic-cell-fr Craig Venter et son équipe du J. Craig Venter Institute, sont parvenus à synthétiser un chromosome bactérien et à le transférer dans une bactérie, en remplacement de l'ADN natif. Contrôlé par le génome sunthétique, la cellule bactérienne a commencé à se répliquer et à fabriquer de nouvelles protéines. No publisher nathalie 2010-06-17T16:09:53Z News Item http://www.fourmentinguilbert.org/birth-of-the-first-synthetic-cell Craig Venter's team at the J. Craig Venter Institute reports they have synthetized a bacterial chromosome and transferred it into a bacterium, where it replaced the native DNA. Powered by the synthetic genome, the microbial cell began replicating and making a new set of proteins. No publisher nathalie 2010-06-01T08:43:25Z News Item http://www.fourmentinguilbert.org/news/embo-gold-medal-2010-recognizes-jason-w.-chin-synthetic-biologist-pioneered-genetic-code-reprogramming The European Molecular Biology Organization announced the award of the EMBO Gold Medal 2010 to Jason W. Chin from the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB) for his pioneering work on reprogramming the genetic code. Chin’s work allows designer amino acids to be encoded at specific, predetermined positions in proteins in vivo, enabling molecular biologists to control and elucidate the functions of proteins in cells with unprecedented precision. No publisher nathalie 2010-05-11T16:36:35Z News Item http://www.fourmentinguilbert.org/postings/la-machinerie-de-la-vie-vient-de-paraitre Qu'est-ce qui rend le sida si dangereux ? En quoi sa structure fait de la grippe un virus inventif ? A quelle partie d'une bactérie une molécule antibiotique s'attaque-t-elle ? Quels sont les mécanismes moléculaires à l'œuvre dans la mort programmée des cellules humaines ? Pourquoi le renouvellement des cellules peut-il amener au cancer ? Le livre "La Machinerie de La Vie" par David Goodsell répond à ces questions et émerveillera toute personne qui souhaite voir et ainsi comprendre comment les molécules de la vie s'organisent pour faire fonctionner les cellules. Le texte est très concis et l'auteur est un pionnier dans l'illustration scientifique réaliste. La grande originalité du livre sont les 70 représentations artistiques qui replacent les très nombreuses molécules nécessaires à la vie dans l'espace intérieur si réduit des cellules et des virus. No publisher nathalie 2010-04-04T20:15:23Z News Item http://www.fourmentinguilbert.org/postings/the-pink-army-it-is-time-for-a-revolution The challenge of the Pink Army cooperative : Creating faster and cheaper individualized therapies for breast cancer based on synthetic biology through open-source development. No publisher admin2 2010-02-08T16:17:08Z News Item http://www.fourmentinguilbert.org/postings/simple-bacterium-shows-surprising-complexity A study published in Science shows that the inner workings of a supposedly simple bacterial cell have turned out to be much more sophisticated than expected. To obtain a detailed view of the functional and spatial organisation of the proteome, the study uses a large panel of experimental technics: genomic analysis, affinity chromatography and mass spectrometry, single-particle electron microscopy and electron tomography. No publisher admin 2009-12-31T08:41:44Z News Item http://www.fourmentinguilbert.org/postings/mapping-the-human-microbiome A study reported November 5 in Science provides one of the most thorough whole-body maps to date of the estimated 100 trillion individual microbes the body harbors inside and out. It offers a basis for understanding what roles microbes have in both maintaining good health and causing diseases. Among other conclusions, the researchers found that the microbiome is highly personalized and seems to remain fairly constant over time. No publisher admin 2009-12-31T08:39:03Z News Item http://www.fourmentinguilbert.org/postings/ssb-a-dynamic-protector-of-single-stranded-dna Researchers report that a single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB) in the bacterium E. coli, once thought to be a static player among the many molecules that interact with DNA, actually moves back and forth along single-stranded DNA, gradually allowing other proteins to repair, recombine or replicate the strands. No publisher admin 2009-12-31T08:35:50Z News Item http://www.fourmentinguilbert.org/postings/how-bacteria-can-sense-temperature Temperature is one of the most crucial environmental signals sensed by pathogens to adjust expression of their virulence factors and host survival programs after entry from a cold external environment into a warm-blooded host. Thermo-induced structural changes in bent or supercoiled DNA or mRNA secondary structures are frequently used to modulate virulence gene transcription or translation. No publisher admin 2009-12-31T08:36:09Z News Item