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Metals, Molecules, Life and Death

Public lecture presented by Graham George

August 31, 2004  ·  02:01:42  runtime
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Life Redefined: Microbes Built with Arsenic

March 22, 2011
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How Plants Do it: Light, Oxygen, Action!

Public lecture presented by Vittal Yachandra

August 26, 2008  ·  01:13:34  runtime
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Smarter Drugs: How Protein Crystallography Revolutionizes Drug Design

Public lecture presented by Clyde Smith

April 26, 2005  ·  01:04:36  runtime
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Arsenic: The Silent Killer

Public lecture presented by Andrea Foster

February 28, 2006  ·  01:07:39  runtime
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Chasing Super Bugs with Smarter Drug Design

Public lecture presented by Clyde Smith

November 29, 2011  ·  01:09:47  runtime
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From Atoms to Animals: The Vital Force in Biology

Public lecture presented by Roger Kornberg

February 26, 2008  ·  01:25:33  runtime
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Designing future medicines

Researchers use powerful X-rays to reveal molecular structures at the site where drug compounds interact with cell receptors. These structures...
April 3, 2017
Powerful X-rays reveal molecular structures at the site where drug compounds interact with cell receptors.
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Caught on Camera: The Secret Lives of Life's Molecules

Public lecture presented by Raymond Sierra

April 11, 2017  ·  01:17:23  runtime
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How Plants Do it: Light, Oxygen, Action!

Plants have been doing it with ease for millions of years, and yet science has yet to fully comprehend how: Photosynthesis. It's a fundamental...
Date Tuesday, August 26, 2008
12:30 p.m.  –  1:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
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Arsenic: The Silent Killer

Andrea Foster uses x-rays to determine the forms of potentially toxic elements in environmentally-important matrices such as water, sediments, plants, and microorganisms. In this...
Date Tuesday, February 28, 2006
11:30 a.m.  –  12:30 p.m.  PT
Location Panofsky Auditorium
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Scientists get the most realistic view yet of a coronavirus spike’s protein structure

The study, done on a mild-mannered relative of the virus that causes COVID-19, paves the way for seeing more clearly how spike proteins initiate...

December 18, 2020  ·  4 min read
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