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Rare enzyme activator, Mitapivat

Mitapivat is an allosteric activator of red blood cell pyruvate kinase, the enzyme that performs the final step of glycolysis: it catalyzes the conversion of phosphoenolpyruvate

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Cancer Metabolism research tools

Cancer cells modify their metabolism in order to survive and grow. For example, they employ the Warburg effect (increasing glucose uptake and directly converting it to

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Tool for Lipid Raft Dynamics

Lipid raft dynamics regulate signaling for multiple cellular functions, such as apoptosis, proliferation, and differentiation. They reside in the plasma membrane and comprise sphingolipids, cholesterol, and

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Mechanism for Memory Loss

A team headed by distinguished neuroscientist Alcino Silva recently showed that expression of C-C chemokine receptor type 5 (CCR5) expression reduced memory recall, and maraviroc (Focus

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