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Lab Experiments Support the COVID-19 Bradykinin Storm Theory
1 year ago

Lab Experiments Support the COVID-19 Bradykinin Storm Theory

By  •  1 year ago  •  Featured, Science

A new paper published in Nature Communications adds further evidence to the bradykinin storm theory of COVID-19’s viral pathogenesis—a theory that was posited 2 years ago by a …
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Summit Charts a Course to Uncover the Origins of Genetic Diseases
4 years ago

Summit Charts a Course to Uncover the Origins of Genetic Diseases

By  •  4 years ago  •  Science

A visualization of a new structure of the human PIC. The spheres correspond to the positions of patient-derived mutations color-coded by disease phenotype. Video credit: Ivaylo Ivanov, …
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Unraveling Enzymes
9 years ago

Unraveling Enzymes

By  •  9 years ago  •  Science

A team of researchers, led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Pratul Agarwal, is seeking to obtain key insights into the fundamental underpinnings of how enzymes work and, in particular, what makes them such great catalysts.
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Researchers recruit Titan to study key molecular switch that controls cell behavior

By  •  10 years ago  •  Science

Using computational molecular dynamics simulations, researchers at ORNL and the University of Tennessee–ORNL Joint Institute for Computational Sciences have discovered a molecular “switch” in a receptor that controls cell behavior.
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