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Design of a hyperstable 60-subunit protein icosahedron
The icosahedron is the largest of the Platonic solids, and icosahedral protein structures are widely used in biological systems for packaging and transport. There has been considerable interest in repurposing such structures for applications ranging from targeted delivery to multivalent immunogen presentation. The ability to design proteins that self-assemble into precisely specified, highly ordered icosahedral structures would open the door to a new generation...
No-go for show: Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin delays spaceship test due to bad O-ring
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos says his Blue Origin space venture is delaying its first live-streamed space launch due to a leaky O-ring seal.
Blue...
Design of a hyperstable 60-subunit protein icosahedron
The icosahedron is the largest of the Platonic solids, and icosahedral protein structures are widely used in biological systems for packaging and transport. There has been considerable interest in repurposing such structures for applications ranging from targeted delivery to multivalent immunogen presentation. The ability to design proteins that self-assemble into precisely specified, highly ordered icosahedral structures would open the door to a new generation...
Geek of the Week: Porch’s Matthew Neagle finds a home in Seattle, helping others improve theirs
Matthew Neagle was drawn to startups by the qualities he learned early in his career working for the non-profit leadership organization AIESEC. He knew he wanted to...
Proteome-wide covalent ligand discovery in native biological systems
Small molecules are powerful tools for investigating protein function and can serve as leads for new therapeutics. Most human proteins, however, lack small-molecule ligands, and entire protein classes are considered ‘undruggable’. Fragment-based ligand discovery can identify small-molecule probes for proteins that have proven difficult to target using high-throughput screening of complex compound libraries. Although reversibly binding ligands are commonly pursued, covalent fragments provide an...
Startup Spotlight: InfoSpace co-founders lead marketing analytics startup Versium
Two decades in the big data and analytics space revealed a problem that Versium co-founders Chris Matty and Kevin Marcus believed they could solve. They observed the huge volume of data generated by...
The XPS 13 DE: Dell continues to build a reliable Linux lineage
Behold, the latest in Linux out-of-the-box: Dell's XPS 13 Developer's Edition (2016). (credit: Scott Gilbertson)
Hardware that ships with Linux installed isn't as rare as it used to be. System 76, Purism, ZaReason, and others have been cranking out hardware with Linux pre-installed for quite a while now. But while those of us who use...
‘Delightfully familiar’ interface fronts new container-management offering from ContainerX
Ending an extended beta period that began in November, ContainerX, of San Jose, Calif., today announced the general availability of its Linux and Windows product to manage Docker containers. Called simply ContainerX, the product is...
Lone wolf claims responsibility for DNC hack, dumps purported Trump smear file
In an intriguing follow-up to Tuesday's report that Russian hackers gained access to Democratic National Committee servers, an anonymous blogger has claimed he alone was responsible for the breach and backed up the claim by publishing what purport to be authentic DNC documents taken during the online heist.
In a blog post published Wednesday, someone with the handle Guccifer 2.0 published hundreds of pages of...