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Now, *this* is a crystal!

During the lab cleanup day today, Paul found this crystal in the bottom of his 5 M NaCl bottle, which had been sitting quietly on his shelf for about a year or so. WOW! That is a falcon tube lid, for reference... Nearly 100 years since the structure of NaCl was determined by X-ray crystallography (the first ever X-ray structure) - I wonder if they had a crystal THIS good! Of course, maybe it doesn't diffract... Keep trying Eija!

If you are looking for a good read…

...then look no further than the latest blockbuster from Mackay and Segal. Packed with juicy material on the bipartite selection of zinc fingers by phage display, the lowdown on inhibition of viral transcription by zinc finger proteins and the shocking tale of transgenic mice expressing an artificial zinc finger protein that targets an endogenous gene, you and your family won't want to miss out on having a copy of this on your shelves... Actually, this book was three years in the making, so it was quite something for both of us when it was finally finished. There will certainly be some celebration when we get copies in our hot little...

Robyn achieves closure

Robyn has now handed in the final corrected copies of her PhD thesis, and no doubt has now achieved that sense of inner calm that comes with closure of something so substantial... Just needs to tick off that graduation now before she can put "Dr" on her credit card... Congratulations!

Have been off X for months but had to log in to see response to AF3. I am much less smart than the authors - but am I (and Erin) the only ones to think that the helical afros that it makes out of IDRs is totally weird? Am I missing something?

Amazing story from the lab down the corridor - @RezwanSidd working with Sandro Ataide and Ruth Hall in @SydneySOLES at @Sydney_Science - now they will be thrown into the gladiators' pit I suspect with the other protagonists that prowl this landscape! 🙂 Great piece of work!

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