#Proteins

Today Google @DeepMind announced that their deep learning system AlphaFold has achieved unprecedented levels of accuracy on the “protein folding problem”, a grand challenge problem in computational biochemistry.What is this
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Oh medtwitter I have found one of my coolest evolutionary facts ever! I was looking at evolution of innate immune system. It's very old, below vertebrates. We didn't get adaptive
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attending this now will tweet interesting stuff :)https://twitter.com/ScienceSaoirse/status/1354484695237615616 novel pharmacologcal strategies include CB receptor allosteric modulators and regulator proteins... the use of peripherally rest
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All the COVID-causing virus circulating in the world right now could easily fit inside a single cola can, according to a calculation by a British mathematician whose sum exposes how
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Ladies and germs, it’s time for the thread you didn’t realize you were waiting for: my ride-along narration of @aewatkins6 doing a SalivaDirect run! (1/??)https://twitter.com/nathangrubaugh/status/1295813821798535168 Some front matter:
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"The evidence, he and his co-authors wrote, was often phenomenological". Those are fighting words! I'm a proud card-carrying phenomenologist. Science is all about the discovery of new phenomena. It's not
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Story about the 5 year journey to a new preprint from our lab: Transcriptomic and proteomic regulation through abundant, dynamic, and independent arginine methylation by Type I and Type II
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SARS-CoV-2 is getting all these strange mutations . Do I need to get worried, as the vaccine may not work?? The simple answer is: Mostly Likely NO - SARS-CoV-2 is
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Are viruses alive? The short answer is still no.In this month's blog post I take a break from coronaviruses to talk about giant viruses and their apparent potential to produce
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#QuantitativeAndRigorousPS papers created in response to pings asking that I list papers that represent "quantitative & rigorous work" in the field of intracellular phase transitions. I indicated there were numerous,
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On the herders / farmers issue . Everyone claims right , but no one barely wants to do what is right . This is 2021 and attached are land sizes
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HOW FOOD AFFECTS BRAIN/THREAD/ WHAT THE BRAIN IS MADE OF:Most of the weight of brain would come from fats AKA Lipids.The remaining parts of the brain consist of Proteins and
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Everybody! Our latest work on the evolution of #integron integrases is out! I shout it because it has been an extremely long and tough project! Thanks @amazeld @aleks_nivina and collaborators!
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friendly reminder since this is going around again: DO NOT EAT THE RICH!it's called bio-magnification, people! the rich are at the top of the food chain, so they accumulate toxins
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1/n: I’m about to use this morning’s “woke up in a panic ‘cause my ‘to do’ list is longer than my day” rant to address this consistent and *flawed* argument...
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1/ Are RNA vaccines safe? I have gotten this question a lot lately, and it is a good question. 2/ First: RNA is messages. At any moment a human cell
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