What is Mad Cow Disease

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad-cow disease (MCD), is a fatal, neurodegenerative disease in cattle, that causes a spongy...
Protein Recycling

Recycling is important not only on a global scale, but also at the cellular level, since key molecules tend to be...
Ribosome Ratchet

Comparison of two states of bacterial ribosome, either with fMet - tRNA bound or with elongation factor EF-G bound reveals the...
What is Polyribosome
Polyribosomes (or polysomes) are a cluster of ribosomes, bound to a mRNA molecule, first discovered and characterized by Jonathan Warner, Paul...
Laser Tweezers

An Laser tweezer is a scientific instrument that uses a focused laser beam to provide an attractive or repulsive force (typically...
How Depression is caused
Depression is one of the most common psychiatric disorders. Symptoms of depression are often subtle and unrecognized both by patients and...
Aspartate Transcarbamylase
Aspartate carbamoyltransferase (also known as ATCase or aspartate transcarbamoylase) catalyzes the first step in the pyrimidine biosynthetic pathway. Enzyme is a...
Proline Kinks
Integral membrane proteins often contain proline residues in their presumably alpha-helical transmembrane segments. This is in marked contrast to globular proteins,...
Glucose
Glucose (Glc), a monosaccharide (or simple sugar) also known as grape sugar, blood sugar, or corn sugar, is a very important...
Lymphocyte Homing
Lymphocyte "homing" process disperses the immunologic repertoire, directs lymphocyte subsets to the specialized microenvironments that control their differentiation and regulate their...
Neutrophil Chase

Neutrophils are white blood cells, which hunt and kill bacteria In this video neutrophil can be seen in the mist of...
Cytokine Signaling
Cytokines are a category of signaling molecules that are used extensively in cellular communication. They are proteins, peptides, or glycoproteins. The...
Lipids and Membranes
Lipids are a broad group of naturally-occurring molecules which includes fats, waxes, sterols, fat-soluble vitamins (such as vitamins A, D, E...
Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP)
Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) denotes an optical technique capable of quantifying the two dimensional lateral diffusion of a molecularity thin...
What is IgG Antibodies
Immunoglobulin G (IgG) is a monomeric immunoglobulin, built of two heavy chains γ and two light chains. Each IgG has two...
Lecture on Myoglobin and Hemoglobin
Myoglobin is a single-chain globular protein of 153 amino acids, containing a heme (iron-containing porphyrin) prosthetic group in the center around...
Uptake of Bacteria by Phagocytes
Uptake of bacteria by phagocytes is an active process, which requires triggering of specific receptors on phagocytes.Fc receptor, which binds antibody-coated...
Innate Recognition of Pathogens
In the initial stage of immune response, the innate immune system recognizes the presence of pathogens and provides the first line...
Induction of Apoptosis
Apoptosis in T cells and other cells can be activated through cell surface receptors called FAS,Fas are member of TNF receptor...
MAP kinase pathway, MAPK
The Mitogen activated Protein kinase pathway or MAP kinase pathway is a key signaling pathway by which cell responds to external...
Activated T Cell
In this video, we can see a T cell becomes activated when its interact with Dendritic cells (DCs).The T cell is...
TCR Signaling Pathway

T cell receptor is a complex of antigen specific alpha and beta chains associated in membrane CD3 gamma and CD3 delta,epsilon...
Lipid Rafts
Lipod rafts are specialised regions of the cell membrane,that are rich lipids and cholestrol and more rigid than rest of membrane...
Viral Evasions
When virusus infect a cell ,the proteins produced in the cytosol by the virus can be degraded by proteosome and trasported...
Gene Recombination
Immunoglobin genes are composed of separated segments of DNA that become join together in the process called somatic recombination to make...
Leukocyte Extravasation
Activated vascular endothelium cell express E-selectin and ICAM-1 and display chemokines on extracellular matix.leukocytes initiatly adhere by binding to selectins which...