Monkeypox has no treatment. Scientists just found its weak spot: Vina Nguyen highlights the lab of Jonathan Abraham of @harvardmed.bsky.social & colleagues that appeared in @nature.com.
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@sbgrid.bsky.socialMonkeypox has no treatment. Scientists just found its weak spot: Vina Nguyen highlights the lab of Jonathan Abraham of @harvardmed.bsky.social & colleagues that appeared in @nature.com.
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@sbgrid.bsky.socialTechnical Notes: This month's software push includes updates to 11 titles -- Amber, BindCraft, ChemEx, HTSlib, IMOD, NAMD, Octopi, Picard, PolNet, PowerFit, and Warp.
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@sbgrid.bsky.socialBacterial Xenophilia: mechanisms behind foreign DNA import: Cariuna Ellison's highlight features a publication in @narjournal.bsky.social from Manuela Hospenthal & fellow researchers at @ethz.ch.
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@sbgrid.bsky.socialSBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in August from Guy Schoehn from IBS Grenoble – Research group in Journal of Molecular Biology: High-resolution Structure of the Vaccinia Virus Phospholipase D-fold Endonuclease K4.
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@sbgrid.bsky.socialUpcoming events from our partners at
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Instruct SI CryoEM Workshop 2026, Single Particle Analysis
November 10-12, 2026 | National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Application deadline: October 2, 2026
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@sbgrid.bsky.socialSBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in August from Bo Liang from Emory University School of Medicine in Microorganisms MDPI: Unreacted RSV Polymerase Structures Expand the Post-Translocation Landscape of the Nucleotide Addition Cycle.
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@sbgrid.bsky.social@sbgrid.bsky.socialSBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in August from Andrew Kruse from @harvardmed.bsky.social in @pnas.org : Activation of the angiotensin II type I receptor by a nonpeptide agonist.
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@sbgrid.bsky.socialTechnical Notes: macOS 27 expected this fall
Apple is expected to release macOS 27 in the fall, & as w/ many new operating system releases, we recommend that users delay updating until the bugs are worked out. Contact us at [email protected] to report any problems you encounter.
@sbgrid.bsky.socialSBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in August from Eric Fischer from @danafarber.bsky.social in @nature.com DCAF11-dependent molecular glue degrader activated by glutathionylation.
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@sbgrid.bsky.socialSBGrid's eLife paper received a citation in August from Peter Dahlberg at Stanford University in @pubs.acs.org Nano: Cryo-Electron Tomography Reveals Nanoscale Thick Filament Disorganization in MYH7 P710R Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Cardiomyocytes.
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@sbgrid.bsky.socialCommunity Announcement: Upcoming events from our partners at
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Instruct-ERIC Industry Webinar - Mass Photometry to support Structural Biology Research
October 13, 2026 | Virtual
Presented in collaboration with Refeyn
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@sbgrid.bsky.socialFisk University student Cariuna Ellison's highlight features a @pnas.org paper from Kate Ferguson's lab at @yale.edu School of Medicine. Ferguson's group identifies the activation mechanisms of an important protein receptor, EGFR, linked to cancer.
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@sbgrid.bsky.socialNew Title Alert: OCTOPI- is a deep-learning framework for automated 3D particle picking in cryo-electron tomography, with tools for training and running 3D U-Net models and automatically exploring model configurations.
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@sbgrid.bsky.socialAntibodies guiding cancer immunotherapy: a publication in @cp-cancercell.bsky.social w/ contributions from Priyamvada Acharya & colleagues from @dukemedschool.bsky.social.
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@sbgrid.bsky.socialCommunity Announcement: Upcoming events from our partners at @instruct-eric.bsky.social
Instruct-ERIC Webinar Series: Structure Meets Function 49
September 15, 2026 | Virtual
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@sbgrid.bsky.socialThe not so easy job of protecting our DNA: a publication in @natsmb.nature.com from the lab of Nikola Pavletich at @mskcancercenter.bsky.social in which researchers describe the structure of ATR-ATRIP complex bound to its two activators.
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@sbgrid.bsky.socialAugust's software push includes - AlphaFold3, AlphaPulldown, AmberTools, CCP4, Chromap, COOT, cryoDRGN, DIALS, Foldtree, ICM Browser, NMRFx-Anaylst, OpenFold3, Open Force Field Toolkit, OpenMM, pyCoAn, pytom-match-pick, RDKit, Scipion, Schrödinger, Warp, and XDS.
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@sbgrid.bsky.socialNew Event Alert: The SBGrid CryoEM Cloud Tournament! Teams worldwide will analyze the same confidential, unpublished CryoEM dataset in a preconfigured AWS cloud environment, competing to deliver the most accurate, efficient, & scientifically useful results.
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@sbgrid.bsky.socialOur software webinar series will resume in October with Beata Turoňová, Group Leader at the @mpibp.bsky.social, introducing cryoCAT. Until then, you can catch up on webinars you missed from our last series on the SBGrid YouTube channel.
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