“The Protein Universe Atlas is a groundbreaking resource for exploring the diversity of proteins. Its user-friendly web interface empowers researchers, biocurators and, students in navigating the “dark matter” to explore proteins of unknown function.”
🥁 That’s what the committee said about this work, one of the #SIBRemarkableOutputs 2023 👏
Since language acquisition and fluency is on my #brain (all of the videos of #Trump's attempts at speech are firing lots of my own cylinders!), here is another image of the brain from #FindingTheRightWords. Thank you to the amazing #CarolinePrioleau of #UCSF for this beautiful and helpful drawing.
@wlf_warren. You are welcome. You can access them yourself -- there is one of misfolded #proteins; another with #tau and #amyloid stains -- (and some other photos from the wayback machine) at the book website. The book itself has the images in black and white, but the website has them in color. Just click this link and then go to the book link and then click the figures link! https://weinsteinandmiller.com
Results of a clinical trial show a peanut allergy treatment formulated as a toothpaste can safely deliver immunotherapy to raise recipients' peanut tolerance.
My name is Barth van Rossum. I am a scientist with background in structural biology (#proteins & #NMR) and a strong compassion for visualizing science.
I am Dutch and work at the Leibniz FMP in #Berlin, Germany.
A new company is underway that says it adapts the gene editing technique Crispr to make detecting nucleic acid targets like DNA or RNA faster and simpler.
A biotechnology company is receiving NIH support for discovering antibodies that address the vast majority of proteins coded by the human genome, passed-up so far by drug makers.
Researchers from a university biochemistry lab and company developing synthetic enzymes designed techniques using engineered bacteria to detect buried land mines at longer distances.
The word '#genome' was born in the 1920s when someone blended 'gene' with 'chromosome'. (The -some in 'chromosome' is from a root that means 'body' as in 'somatic' or 'psychosomatic'.)
Then science started adding -omes. Proteome, transcriptome, phenome, even spliceome. But the best by far is the #unknome: the set of all genes of unknown function.
New paper in @PLOSBiology about the unknome does a screen for basic function of these "mystery proteins"
We know almost nothing about thousands of proteins in the human body (archive.is)
Scientists have created an "unknome" of proteins encoded by human genes, whose existence is known but whose functions are mostly not