Former pro pitcher now keeps 'strike zone' in proteins
Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 13:30
in Biology & Nature
Perhaps no other biochemist in the world has his own baseball card, but Elih Velázquez-Delgado, who gave up pro ball for science, does. The doctoral student is about to publish his first academic paper on caspase-6, an enzyme that’s causally involved in Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s diseases.