Decoding the cellular crime scene
Tricking the viral hijackers
Hacking our own immune system
Rewriting the code of life
007skaty Pathogen Transmission Mapping
Decode the strain, Trace the path, Break the chain.
007skaty Specialized cell-surface proteins detect chemical signals from light to hormones, allowing researchers to build drugs that perfectly block or trigger these pathways.
007skaty John Kendrew mapped the first protein structure in 1958, unlocking modern disease research.
007skaty Spell DNA sequences to discover how scientists rewrite genetic codes to cure diseases.
Computer simulations: The AlphaFold AI system has predicted the 3D shapes of nearly all 200 million proteins known to science, a task that would take human scientists millions of years.
A form of cell death typically caused by ischemia, where the basic structural outline of the dead tissue remains preserved. Within two days, migrating neutrophils form a red, hyperemic rim around the pale, necrotic tissue.
Which family of cell receptors is the target of over one-third of all FDA-approved drugs?
In 2012, which two scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for mapping G-protein coupled receptors?
007skaty Scientists use X-ray crystallography to map the three-dimensional shapes of proteins.
Which imaging technique uses frozen samples and electron beams to view proteins in their natural state without crystallizing them?
What was the very first protein to have its three-dimensional structure solved by X-ray crystallography in 1958?
In what year was the Human Genome Project officially declared complete, providing a full map of human DNA?
Which hereditary neurological disease is caused by a repeating genetic stutter on chromosome 4?