Category: Uncategorized
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Neutralizing deadly snake toxins
AI-generated proteins that protect animals in the lab promise safer, more accessible antivenoms.
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Congrats Han!
Postdoc Han Raut Altae-Tran, PhD, has received a Life Sciences Research Foundation fellowship. He’s designing RNA-binding proteins to regulate key biological functions.
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Targeted protein degradation through advanced protein design
“We’ve created a new approach that uses simpler components, achieves greater precision, and can be applied to virtually any target molecule on the surface of cells.”
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Design of noncanonical alpha helices
We’ve found new secondary structures by screening over 100 uncommon amino acids, unlocking fresh building blocks for molecular engineering.
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Congrats Helen!
Now a 2024 Curci PhD Fellow, grad student Helen Eisenach is using computational methods to advance vaccine development and drug delivery.
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Morphing protein assemblies by design
Inspired by dynamic molecules found in cells, these tiny objects change shape when exposed to effector molecules.
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Congrats Jason!
Postdoc Jason Zhang, PhD, has received a K99 award from the National Institutes of Health. He’s building tools to understand how cancer cells learn to resist drug treatments.
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Designing synthetic smell receptors
“When we started with this idea a few years ago, many people thought it was impossible.”