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🌟 New Tool Alert!

We present MemPrO – a toolkit for orienting and building membrane protein systems:

✅ Membrane protein orientation 
✅ Mixed membrane building 
✅ Double membranes & curvature 
✅ Peptidoglycan cell wall support

🔗 github.com/pstansfeld/mempro 
📖 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
MemPrO: A Predictive Tool for Membrane Protein Orientation
Membrane proteins play a vital role in numerous cellular processes, including ion transport, intercellular communication, and antibiotic resistance. Ensuring their accurate orientation within lipid bi...
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December 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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One of my favorite drums to beat is how American oligarchs saw Putin cash out the Soviet Union and have been trying to do the same here ever since.
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.

I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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One of the great industrial ion channel biophysicists has passed. At Merck, Johns Hopkins, Essen, and most recently Q-state, Owen made important contributions to many therapeutic programs as well as as the tools used to study ion channels, particularly APC.
Quiver Bioscience on LinkedIn: Our dear friend and colleague, Owen McManus, passed away unexpectedly at… | 22 comments
Our dear friend and colleague, Owen McManus, passed away unexpectedly at the end of December. Owen was an integral part of our team and an incredible talent in… | 22 comments on LinkedIn
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January 8, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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We made a photoswitchable HaloTag (psHaloTag), which can reversibly turn-on fluorogenic dyes upon illumination 💡. Congrats to Franzi, Bego and all co-authors, check out our preprint below 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM