HeyJaredThe Tortured Proteins Department
A deep dive into scientific discovery and the process of doing science, hosted by Stephanie Wankowicz and James Fraser.
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Prism: Unlocking Protein Dynamics (opens the original)
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State of Decay (opens the original)
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We talk about a big travel month (including Stephanie winning the George Sheldrick Award for Structural Science ), federal funding in light of the upcoming turnover of US political representation, pre-prints, and the use of AI with agentic workflows for science and LLMs for writing. News Links: Derek Lowe's Blog: The Assault On Science Funding Continues Senate votes to block rule giving White House more control over research Estimating global article processing charges paid to 14publishers for o
Cruel Kinase Summer (opens the original)
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We chat about a revolving door of consortium meetings for Jaime, follow up on the OMB proposed rule, two mini-protein kinase preprints, and differences between blogs and scholarly work. Preprints/Blogs: De novo design of selective kinase modulators Selective miniprotein inhibitors of Aurora-A kinase designed using interaction-motif scaffolding Ensemble refinement produces consistent R-free values but smaller ensemble sizes than previously reported News Links: Bethesda Declaration one year later
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