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Protein Structures
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Gamers tackle enzyme makeover, beat scientists' efforts
Online players of the video game Foldit have notched another first. With a bit of guidance, the players were able to redesign an enzyme and improve its potency, and it's the first time crowdsourcing
Computational biology explains anti-cancer side-effect of HIV drug
Philip Bourne of the University of California, San Diego, was curious as to why the anti-HIV drug nelfinavir had a surprisingly beneficial side-effect. It also reduced tumors in a variety of cancers.
Software validates science fraud
Utrecht University crystallographer Piet Gros and colleagues, working on structures for the immune protein C3b, authored one of three articles on the protein published in a 2006 issue of Nature,
