Articles
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Dressed to Fluoresce
The protein which inspired the image for May in our 2019 calendar has become a workhorse of molecular and cell biology as well as the subject, and medium, for a lot of art. |
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Getting on the front foot
Our featured structure for April in our 2019 calendar is based around a beautiful image of a virus that causes devastation to the world’s livestock population. |
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Growth
Soon, spring will be in the air again (at least here in the northern hemisphere) and plants are already getting ready for it. |
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Detecting Pain
The poor diet and minimal exercise of a desk-bound bioinformatician has finally caught up. A rare bit of exercise brings on sharp pains in the chest, the sure sign of a blocked artery and ischemic heart disease. |
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Connection
The new PDBe calendar for 2019 starts with an image representing the connection and communication between nerve cells mediated by the AMPA-type glutamate receptor. |
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Waves of Trouble
The image for December in our 2018 calendar depicts Hepatitis A virus and a common route of human infection with the virus, shellfish from polluted water. |
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Signalling in motion
The image in PDBe’s 2018 calendar for November shows nerves and muscle tissue, and the molecule which we use to send signals between them. |
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The enemies of our enemies
The image in our calendar for October shows a virus which can kill a bacterium. A bacterium that is responsible a disease which affects over 15 million people each year. |
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Opening up a Wormhole
The image for September in our 2018 calendar depicts Lysenin, a molecular hole punch produced by garden earthworms. Revealing Beautiful Biology |
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Understanding Antibiotics
Our calendar image for August focuses not on a protein, but on one of the thousands of small molecules in the Protein Data Bank. |
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Typhoid Mary and the Indestructible Bacterium
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Dengue Virus: A Trojan Horse of the Molecular World
The image for June in our 2018 calendar depicts the Dengue Virus (DENV). |