by Liam Scott, Contributing Writer Many would claim that salad dressing is what makes a salad worth eating. Diehard fanatics … More
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Let’s get ethical
by Sofia Reynoso Recently, I watched a documentary series called Unnatural Selection on Netflix. The show details how an emerging … More
What’s in a name?
Written By: Katharine Kocik In terms of classifying organisms, names usually reveal a great deal about a species. The familiar … More
On the horizon in machine learning: Identifying natural selection at work in the human genome
Written by: Janet Wilson Machine Learning (ML) is a rapidly evolving branch of artificial intelligence in which a program is … More
Observing molecular machines using Cryo-EM
In 2017, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, and Richard Henderson for their development … More
Alcohol and potential DNA damage
A recent study completed by the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge suggests a novel reason … More
This month on the PDB: December
Hi everybody! 162 structures were released from November 28th to December 5th, ranging from the typical Homo sapiens proteins to … More
This week on the PDB: November 24th – November 30th
Welcome back to another week of “This week on the PDB”, where I discuss you a very small section of … More
This week on the PDB: November 7th – November 13th
Welcome back to “This Week on the PDB” for the week of Nov. 7th! This week on the PDB, 133 … More
This Week on the PDB: An Introduction
Protein functions are largely dependent on their 3D structure, but where can we find these structures, and more importantly, manipulate … More
The Abstract 