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Klaus Schulten and collaborators think that a toxic molecule, superoxide, may play a pivotal role in birds' ability to see Earth's magnetic fields. They published their discovery in Biophysical Journal. UIUC News Bureau article. Roman Boulatov's research group is exploring the breaking points of bonds within molecules. They have come to the conclusion that stretching bonds does not necessarily cause them to break more quickly. UIUC News Bureau article. The unusual mechanism for the breakup of a non-activated carbon-carbon bond in a single step by a bacterial enzyme is elucidated in a recent Nature article by Wilfred van der Donk and colleagues. UIUC News Bureau article, C&EN article. Klaus Schulten and Thanh Troung lead teams of researchers using supercomputers to study how antiviral medications interact with the swine flu (A/H1N1) virus proteins and how the viruses develop resistance to these drugs. Texas Advanced Computing Center article. Crystal structures of membrane proteins are crucial for understanding how they function in cells, but the crystals are notorously difficult to obtain. Paul Kenis and coworkers have developed a device that allows them to determine the conditions needed to crystallize these proteins. C&EN article contains a video showing the device in action.
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