Published: Nov. 23, 2025
Cryo-electron microscopy has been a boon for the study of membrane proteins. No crystallization needed, and the ability to visualize dynamic regions of the protein to boot. But one aspect …
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Published: Sept. 30, 2025
For three years, tuberculosis (TB) was replaced by COVID-19 as the planet's deadliest infectious disease, but in 2023 TB's causative agent, mycobacterium tuberculosis, regained its rank as the world's most …
Published: July 30, 2025
Myxobacteria may be the most interesting microbes you've never heard of. That's what Emina Stojković realized when a summer student in her lab recounted vivid details from a recent microbiology …
Published: May 31, 2025
For a person intent on tiny forms, George Phillips's career has been closely tied to big initiatives that have added new categories of structures to the Protein Data Bank. He …
Published: May 28, 2025
SBGrid is pleased to offer a one-day workshop - CryoEM in Industry: cutting edge, cost-efficient compute alternatives - on June 26, 2025 at Harvard Medical School in Boston. This workshop …
Published: March 28, 2025
From ancient Greece to modern day, people have often considered activities of the mind and muscle as fundamentally separate, even opposite, pursuits. Consider the contrasting stereotypes of a nerdy brainiac …
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Published: Dec. 12, 2024
In Woods Hole, Mass., the Atlantic breeze mixes with the hum of microscopes and the chatter of biologists. There, in a summer neurobiology course, Luke Chao first became enthralled by mitochondria “whizzing” around …
Published: Nov. 25, 2024
Jens Meiler was only 12 years old when he learned programming on a computer smuggled back to East Germany. It was 1985, a few years before the wall came down, and his father …
Published: Aug. 19, 2024
We have recently published a manuscript describing our Capsules technology used to deploy SBGrid and BioGrids software collections. Read more in Acta Cryst Section D, special 75th ICUR anniversary issue, available via open …
Published: April 28, 2024
For many people, the phrase “nutritional immunity” may evoke special foods or vitamin supplements believed to boost immunity, such as chicken soup, vitamin C, or tea with honey. But for Steven Damo at …
Published: March 8, 2024
ACADEMIC SOFTWARE INITIATIVE PRIVACY POLICY This policy governs privacy considerations around the Academic Software Initiative (ASI), based at Harvard Medical School, which includes software use through SBGrid, BioGrids, and all other initiatives that …
Published: Jan. 30, 2024
Bing Chen has spent his structural biology career seeking a better look at how HIV particles enter host cells to make people sick. In fact, his research group at Boston Children’s Hospital had …
Published: Jan. 11, 2024
Join us once a month on Thursdays at 4pm ET for Meharry/SBGrid Train the Trainer Office Hours, open to alums and future attendees of Train the Trainer Workshops. Office hours will include technical …
Published: Nov. 29, 2023
In structural biology. there are few more onerous tasks than coaxing reluctant proteins into crystals. “Unfortunately, that is really a huge bottleneck,” says Sarah E.J. Bowman, who heads the National High-Throughput Crystallization (HTX) …
Published: Sept. 29, 2023
For nearly a century, protein crystallography has focused on certain X-ray signals to reveal the atomic architecture of proteins. But even a structure solved to the reigning gold standard of X-ray diffraction does …
Published: June 28, 2023
André Hoelz was visiting The Rockefeller University in New York on a graduate school scouting trip when he heard an unforgettable talk. The lecture centered on an immense molecular complex essential to the …
Published: March 23, 2023
NE-CAT is pleased to offer our Practical Crystallography Course, June 21-23, 2023 at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. The course will be a three day workshop hosted in conjunction with SBGrid. We …
Published: Feb. 28, 2023
Andrea Thorn had been a junior group leader for a less than a year when, in early January 2020, researchers in China identified the cause of a mysterious contagious illness with pneumonia-like symptoms. …
Published: Jan. 31, 2023
The periodic table may be an icon of chemistry, but a cluster of elements at its center gives biology some essential pop and sparkle. Yvain Nicolet at the Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS) …