As promised, a 🧵 on our recent article now out in @NatureSMB! Co-led with @AbbyBartlett_@Pagliarini_Lab@JudithSimcox, we find ACAD10/11 are NOT like other acyl-CoA dehydrogenases and instead catabolize atypical lipids called 4-hydroxy acids 🤯#lipidtime https://t.co/u1E4kniIso
Scientists just made the shortest X-ray laser pulses ever—as short as 60 attoseconds (that’s a billionth of a billionth of a second)! @slaclab@UWMadPhysics https://t.co/4gLkxJhNim
Enzymes are promising catalysts for eco-friendly plastic recycling, but how can we make them faster? We developed a method to screen millions of enzyme mutants for enhanced plastic degradation! @J_A_C_S
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Halloween fun! The Martell lab celebrated spooky season this year dressing as Gru, his adorable daughters, and a horde of mischievous minions from the movie, Despicable Me! Rest assured – no lab goggles were harmed in the making of these costumes!
BREAKING NEWS
The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
Check out Eric’s newest publication on “Terminal Alkyne-Modified DNA Aptamers with Enhanced Protein Binding Affinities” in the journal of #ACS Chemical Biology. Congratulations Eric, Christian @its_Christian08 and co-authors! @ACSPublications@UWMadisonChem@Martell_Group
Check out our new paper: installing terminal alkynes on DNA aptamers can enhance binding affinity. Congrats to Eric, @its_Christian08, and Gillian! Thanks @XuhuiHuangChem, Kirill, and Andrew for the fun collaboration and very informative MD simulations!
https://t.co/3KnHSL8Cys
Ashley’s paper “Switchable DNA Catalysts for Proximity Labeling at sites of Protein-Protein Interactions” just got published in @J_A_C_S. Congratulations Ashley! @Martell_Group
1/ Thrilled that Ashley’s paper is out in @J_A_C_S today! We developed switchable proximity labeling (PL) catalysts that activate in specific cellular locations, such as sites of protein-protein interactions (PPIs). https://t.co/42YARyrGhN
Martell lab goes to the state capital! Undergraduate researcher, Max Unger presented his research on plastic recycling enzymes at Research in Rotunda. We are so proud of him!
1/ We are excited to share our article published in @J_A_C_S today! We used DNA scaffolds that change conformation in response to chemical stimuli to control radical polymerizations. DNA scaffolds control the distance between a photocatalyst and quencher.
https://t.co/Rp68fJZetn
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2022 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.”
My team and I are grateful to the Office of Naval Research for supporting our work with a Young Investigator Award! Thank you to my group members for their hard work and creativity in building our research program. @USNavyResearch@Martell_Group https://t.co/wUqBo0l9KE