Category Archive: Art and science

Jun
27

MM4TB and a trip to a new Miro Exhibit

  Occasionally I take a bit of a diversion from my usual science focused postings, this one has an artistic flavor. I am in beautiful Brataslava in the Slovak Republic for a few days for the final More Medicines for Tuberculosis (MM4TB) meeting. Every 6 months for the past 5 years we have had meetings of …

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Feb
16

An illustration of the virus and summary of Research Priorities to Inform Public Health and Medical Practice for Domestic Zika Virus: A Workshop

Late last week I was contacted by John Liebler a science and medicine illustrator and he had seen the Zika glycoprotein E homology model and wanted to use it to produce an image of the virus.  After reading up on flaviviruses it appeared to me that the original model was of the trimer and not …

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Jan
16

From a Calendar to a Japanese pharmaceutical company working on antisense approach to DMD

For the last 4 years I have been the fortunate recipient of a calendar. This is not just any calendar and of course it has some link to pharmaceuticals. This one has been carefully tightly wrapped in a sheet of beige paper and sent on its journey thousands of miles by my friend Dr. Tomoko …

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