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osuchembiochem.bsky.social @osuchembiochem.bsky.social · 7d

Kotaro received the 2025 Innovators in Healthcare and Life Sciences Award from Business First!

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 18d

Great Plains Regional Annual Symposium on Protein NMR & Integrated Structural Biology, October 17-18, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Early-bird registration discount ends September 25

Best Oral Presentation & Travel Award Submission Deadline September 25

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · Jun 30

2025 GRASP Great Plains Regional Annual Symposium on Protein and Biomolecular Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Integrated Structural Biology, October 17-18, 2025 at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa www.regcytes.extension.iastate.edu/grasp/ #NMRevents #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

Home - GRASP NMR

The 2025 GRASP NMR Symposium will be held October 17-18, 2025 at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Our MissionThe GRASP symposium aims to highlight the pivotal role of protein NMR in integrated str...

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · Sep 2

RT Héctor Busto @hebusto.bsky.social Resonancia Magnética Nuclear, herramienta contra el fraude. La Estación Enológica de Haro ha afianzado la técnica de control de calidad y de lucha contra el sabotaje de marca en el sector del vino #NMRchat 🧲🍷 @brukercorporation.bsky.social

Resonancia Magnética Nuclear, herramienta contra el fraude | La Rioja

La Estación Enológica de Haro ha afianzado la técnica de control de calidad y de lucha contra el sabotaje de marca en el sector del vino

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Federico Napoli @iomichiamofede.bsky.social · Sep 2

Team effort with @darjarohden.bsky.social 💪🏼👩‍🔬 targeting my second favourite amino acid by solid-state NMR. Many motion timescales accessible. And the next amino acid is already in the crosshairs (my third favourite 😏).

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(yeah nothing beats tryptophan)

Arginine dynamics probed by magic-angle spinning NMR with a specific isotope-labeling scheme

The specific introduction of 1H-13C or 1H-15N moieties into otherwise deuterated proteins holds great potential for high-resolution solution and magic…

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · Aug 31

Journal of Molecular Biology (open) Review Article, Application of NMR to Large RNAs, Brian D. Grossman, Jan Marchant*, Michael F. Summers* www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #NMRchat 🧲

Application of NMR to Large RNAs

Heteronuclear NMR methodologies developed over the past 40 years have enabled atomic level insights into the solution-state structure and dynamics of …

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · Aug 31

Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · Aug 29

NMRFx: Integrated Software for NMR Data Processing, Visualization, Analysis and Structure Calculation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672401v1

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Chris Waudby @chriswaudby.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’m carrying out a short survey of NMR TITAN users - if you’ve made use of this tool in your research, or have suggestions for its future development, I’d be grateful for your input: forms.gle/MMXYwSozszhi... #nmrchat

NMR TITAN user survey

This survey aims to assess the impact of NMR TITAN on biomolecular research and identify priorities for future development. The form should take approximately 5 minutes to complete. Your responses may...

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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · Aug 27

Get important feedback from your community and move your work forward. Share your research at #bps2026!

Submit an abstract today buff.ly/oOjstk6

BPS2026 Annual Meeting | Biophysical Society

The BPS2026 Annual Meeting in San Francisco will showcase Biophysics by the Bay, highlighting the exciting advances in science and technology brought forth by big data and AI. This year’s program…

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ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · Aug 19

How should scientists respond to groups that reject, reinterpret or claim scientific findings for their own political purposes?

Listen carefully: Teaching students to navigate science-scepticism

Science no longer enjoys unlimited and universal trust. An array of groups are questioning scientific wisdom. What does this mean for students and researchers? Gabriel Dorthe studies how trust and mis...

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Sarah Keane @keanelab.bsky.social · Aug 14

Grace developed a virtual screening approach focused on cavities identified in the (NPSL2) RNA structure. She then validated screening "hits" experimentally.
Importantly, this approach is broadly applicable to any RNA with a known 3D structure.

Structure guided discovery of small molecule ligands targeting the oncomiR-1 NPSL2 hairpin - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Structure guided discovery of small molecule ligands targeting the oncomiR-1 NPSL2 hairpin

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Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) @fmp-berlin.de · Aug 14

⏰Join us for the NMR Symposium, Nov 26–27, 2025, celebrating our new 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometer. To present a poster, send your abstract to [email protected]. Registrations are open until September 15th!

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Sjors Scheres @sjorsscheres.bsky.social · Aug 12

Sofia Lövestam's vault structure is now online in Structure @cellpress.bsky.social. 🥳

How beautifully explorative is #cryoEM! We never planned to do this. The vaults just came down with #amyloids from human brain tissue, and Sofia decided to have a closer look.

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Cryo-EM structure of the vault from human brain reveals symmetry mismatch at its caps

Lövestam and Scheres present a cryo-EM structure of vault particles, found during tau filament extraction from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) brain tissue. They reveal a symmetry shift at the va...

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Dave Blake @blakestah.bsky.social · Aug 11

Last week's EO is in clear violation of federal law that gives Institute Directors e.g., the Director of NINDS or NIGMS etc, the final decision making authority in issuing grants of more than $50,000. The Institute Directors know this.

See b), 3), a)

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42 U.S. Code § 284 - Directors of national research institutes

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Radoslav (Rade) Pavlovic @rade-pavlovic.bsky.social · Aug 8

After receiving the sad news about the passing of Edwin Becker, I ran across his report in Analytical Chemistry titled "A Brief History of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance". It is a well-written piece that will entertain the magnetic resonance enthusiast. #chemsky #NMRsky pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

A BRIEF HISTORY OF NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · Aug 8

Nature Communications (open) Seedless: on-the-fly pulse calculation for NMR experiments, Charles J. Buchanan, Gaurav Bhole, Gogulan Karunanithy, Virginia Casablancas-Antràs, Adeline W. J. Poh, Benjamin G. Davis, Jonathan A. Jones* & Andrew J. Baldwin* www.nature.com/articles/s41... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

Seedless: on-the-fly pulse calculation for NMR experiments - Nature Communications

The authors develop a computational tool to design NMR pulses, based on the GRadient Assisted Pulse Engineering approach, that can calculate optimal pulse shapes on the fly during the measurements, to...

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Congressman Bill Foster @repbillfoster.bsky.social · Aug 7

It’s difficult to overstate just how reckless and incompetent this is.

mRNA technology saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 crisis. Now, RFK Jr. is undermining the science that could protect us from the next pandemic—and putting American lives at risk.

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development

Twenty-two projects, totaling $500 million, to develop vaccines using mRNA technology will be halted, the health secretary announced. “I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public healt...

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MP Foster Lab @ The Ohio State University @fosterlab.bsky.social · Aug 6

Negotiating with terrorists? This sure looks like a hostage situation.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · Aug 5

It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university.
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Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Aug 5

Asking for help is not admitting failure, but rather using your resources to ensure that expectations are met. Knowing how to ask for help ensures that you get help that is actually useful, or even crucial, in meeting your goals. cen.acs.org/careers/care... #chemsky

How to get helpful help

Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN): Keeping you up to date with the chemistry news that matters most. Published by the American Chemical Society.

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Mike McQuaid @mikemcquaid.com · Aug 5

🍺 Homebrew 4.6.0 is out!

Opt-in concurrent downloads (`HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY`), early macOS 26 (Tahoe) support, a built-in `brew mcp-server` and lots of other fixes.

Run `brew update` to get it.

Full details at: brew.sh/2025/08/05/h...

4.6.0

Today, I’d like to announce Homebrew 4.6.0. The most significant changes since 4.5.0 are opt-in concurrent downloads with HOMEBREW_DOWNLOAD_CONCURRENCY, preliminary macOS 26 (Tahoe) support and a buil...

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · Aug 2

Bumps on the Road: The Way to Clean Relaxation Dispersion Magic-Angle Spinning NMR, Ben P. Tatman*, Vidhyalakshmi Sridharan, Motilal Uttarkabat, Christopher P. Jaroniec, Matthias Ernst, Petra Rovó, Paul Schanda* pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #NMRchat 🧲

Bumps on the Road: The Way to Clean Relaxation Dispersion Magic-Angle Spinning NMR

Microsecond-to-millisecond motions are instrumental for many biomolecular functions, including enzymatic activity and ligand binding. Bloch-McConnell Relaxation Dispersion (BMRD) Nuclear Magnetic Reso...

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Aug 2

@acs.org is recognizing Jennifer A. Doudna with the Priestley Medal for her discoveries on ribozyme function, the Dicer RNase enzyme, double-stranded RNA processing, and CRISPR gene editing, along with her impactful international science leadership. cen.acs.org/people/award... #chemsky 🧪

Jennifer Doudna is named 2026 Priestley Medalist

The award recognizes the biochemist for discoveries on ribozyme function and CRISPR gene editing, and international science leadership

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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · Dec 20

The 64th Annual Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance (RMCMR) EPR Symposium will take place August 3-7, 2025 at the Snowbird Resort & Conference Center, Snowbird, Utah rockychem.com #NMRchat #NMR #NMRevents #ESR #EPR 🧲

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MP Foster Lab @ The Ohio State University @fosterlab.bsky.social · Jul 24

Our love affair with native mass spectrometry for studying protein-ligand interactions continues...
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Simultaneous ligand binding to intact and partially formed ATP binding sites in the hexameric termination factor Rho

Thermodynamic coupling between ligand binding sites affords macromolecular machines a means to coordinate processive function. Because these machines may be compositionally complex, quantifying and in...

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