For more than two decades, the International Space Station has provided a platform for growing and studying protein crystals. In the early days of microgravity research, scientists discovered that the protein crystals grown in space were more uniform and larger than those grown in Earth’s gravity. Since then, drug companies and academic researchers have conducted hundreds of protein crystal...
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New enzyme could mean better drugs
RICE UNIVERSITY IMAGE: RESEARCHERS IN THE LAB OF RICE’S XUE SHERRY GAO DISCOVERED A NEW CLASS OF DIELS-ALDERASES. CREDIT: PHOTO BY JEFF FITLOW/RICE UNIVERSITY HOUSTON – (Jan. 23, 2023) – Just as a choreographer’s notation tells a dancer to strike a particular pose, an enzyme newly discovered by Rice University scientists is able to tell...