X-ray crystallography study finds way to allosterically inhibit disease-related enzyme caspase-6
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 11:00
in Biology & Nature
Perhaps no other biochemist in the world has his own baseball card, but University of Massachusetts Amherst doctoral student Elih M. Velázquez-Delgado, who gave up a pitching career for science, does. Now the only stats he cares about are experimental data, because, he says, "I fell in love with the fact that I can see a molecule. I can actually see an enzyme and watch how it functions. That captured me."
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