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Protica has launched the first all natural, protein fortified ketchup. Protein Ketchup is designed to be a healthy alternative to traditional ketchups available on the market. Whitehall, PA (PRWEB) January 20, 2012 Protica has launched the first all natural, protein fortified ketchup. Protein Ketchup is designed to be a healthy alternative to traditional ketchups available on the market. Protein Ketchup contains less than half the sugar content as the leading ketchup brands. Protein...

Protica has released a new product intended to help parents provide necessary nutrition for their children. Whitehall, PA (PRWEB) January 19, 2012 Protica has released a new product intended to help parents provide necessary nutrition for their children. Pediagro® is a product that is intended to be consumed on a daily basis to ensure that children obtain the necessary nutrition required to aid in their growth and development. Pediagro’s formulation consists of a combination of...

Protica has launched a new candy that they believe will help consumers have a healthier diet and even lose weight. Whitehall, PA (PRWEB) January 18, 2012 Protica has launched a new candy that they believe will help consumers have a healthier diet and even lose weight. Protein Twist is a one-ounce gummy candy with a similar taste and texture to the bear shaped gummy candies consumed by children and adults every day. Unlike other gummy candies on the market, Protein Twist contains almost no...

A novel technique has been developed and demonstrated at Penn State University to map the proteins that read and regulate chromosomes -- the string-like structures inside cells that carry genes. The specific order in which these proteins attach DNA-containing nucleosomes along the chromosome determines whether a brain cell, a liver cell, or a cancer cell is formed. Until now, it has been exceedingly difficult to determine exactly where such proteins bind to the chromosome, and therefore how...

Protica has announced the release of a new product intended to help consumers who are looking to gain weight. Whitehall, PA (PRWEB) January 17, 2012 Protica has announced the release of a new product intended to help consumers who are looking to gain weight. The need to lose weight is a problem that millions of Americans face every day, however people do not often hear about the need to gain weight. In fact, there are many people who need to gain weight for medical reasons, as well as...

Just like people, some proteins have characteristic ways of "walking," which (also like human gaits) are not so easy to describe. But now scientists have discovered the unique "drunken sailor" gait of dynein, a protein that is critical for the function of every cell in the body and whose malfunction has been associated with neurodegenerative disorders such as Lou Gehrig's disease and Parkinson's disease. The research, which was led by Samara Reck-Peterson of Harvard Medical School and...

Protica has launched several new products designed to be used following weight loss surgery. One of these products, Profect® 200, provides a patient with 20 grams of protein in a one-ounce serving. Whitehall, PA (PRWEB) January 15, 2012 Protica has launched several new products designed to be used following weight loss surgery. One of these products, Profect® 200, provides a patient with 20 grams of protein in a one-ounce serving. This product was designed to help patients get...

A turning point in the history of life occurred 2 to 3 billion years ago with the unprecedented appearance and dramatic rise of molecular oxygen. Now researchers report they have identified an enzyme that was the first – or among the first – to generate molecular oxygen on Earth. The new findings, reported in the journal Structure, build on more than a dozen previous studies that aim to track the molecular evolution of life by looking for evidence of that history in present-day protein...

New method for nucleic acid analysis In the world of biomolecules such as proteins and the hereditary nucleic acids DNA and RNA, three-dimensional structure determines function. Analysis of the passage of such molecules through nanopores offers a relatively new, but highly promising, technique for obtaining information about their spatial conformations. However, interactions between the test molecules and the proteins used as pores have so far hindered quantitative analysis of the behavior...

Because the protein is found in the parasite but not in humans, it is ideal target for an anti-malarial drug A biology lab at Washington University has just cracked the structure and function of a protein that plays a key role in the life of a parasite that killed 655,000 people in 2010. The protein is an enzyme that Plasmodium falciparum, the protozoan that causes the most lethal form of malaria, uses to make cell membrane. The protozoan cannot survive without this enzyme, but even...