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Neha Vithani

@VithaniNeha

Computational biophysicist | Art enthusiast

 Saint Louis, MO
Joined October 2016
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This makes me so sad to use precious funds for this insanity. Post preprints. Use the internet that now exists. You got into science to make a difference for society (like we all did) and so other scientists can leverage new advancements to catapult progress. Let’s act like we GAF.
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@NikoMcCarty2 Dec 2024
Indian gov't is buying a subscription to 13,000 academic journals, and then making them all available to "18 million students, faculty, and researchers" for free. The cost is $715 million over 3 years. It includes Elsevier, Nature, and AAAS. Have any other countries done this?
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"I felt a junoon [passion] inside me," says the 73-year-old, who retired as a clerk.
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Woohoo, our paper on the mechanism of a G protein inhibitor that is specific to one family of G proteins is out! Nice collab with the Blumer nad @AndreaSoranno labs pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.23…
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Now available open access! AlphaFold and Protein Folding: Not Dead Yet! The Frontier Is Conformational Ensembles annualreviews.org/content/jo…

AlphaFold and Protein Folding: Not Dead Yet! The Frontier Is Conformational Ensembles

Like the black knight in the classic Monty Python movie, grand scientific challenges such as protein folding are hard to finish off. Notably, AlphaFold is revolutionizing structural biology by...

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This cryptic pocket has a function! The VP35 protein from Ebola virus performs multiple functions. We wanted to know if it toggles between different conformations that are responsible for different functions. It does! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
The probability of cryptic pocket opening controls functional tradeoffs in filovirus immune evasion

The probability of cryptic pocket opening controls functional tradeoffs in filovirus immune evasion

Cryptic pockets are of growing interest as potential drug targets. However, it remains unclear whether they contribute to protein function or if they are merely happenstantial features that can...

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Delighted to announce that I've launched a company, Decrypt Bio! My co-founder, the rest of the team, and I are combining simulations and experiments to drug cryptic pockets. You can learn more at our avant-garde website😀 decrypt.bio/
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@MIRAI_MIZUE7 Feb 2023
We are born from a group of atoms, and after we die the atoms disperse. And then the atoms come together again and become part of another life.
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I'm happy to present Sculptor, a new epitope-specific generative protein design algorithm from @PossuHuangLab! Many thanks to our collaborators at the Bowman group @drGregBowman and IAVI for all their hard work! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Four years ago, a scientist I'd never met approached me and said: "I think you are probably wrong." Instead of arguing, we collaborated on a study to see if humans possess "nutritional wisdom." What we learned will surprise you! 🧵
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I've put together a few of my favorite discussions on the details of doing molecular dynamics. I'll add more as they come. Hopefully they're useful to you! 🧵1/n
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A wonderful gift on #DurgaPuja to @Arunita_13 and the #DogLab @iiserkol from @ragh_gadagkar. The story of his research on wasps, his early journey into quantitative #ethology and of our #straydogs woven together beautifully. science.thewire.in/the-scien… @TheWireScience
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🚨BIG NEWS🚨 Our effort to design a patent-free #COVID19 oral antiviral, the @covid_moonshot, has received $10M in funding from the @wellcometrust and @WHO! This funding will pay for preclinical studies of compounds prior to initiating clinical trials! foldingathome.org/2021/09/27… 🧵
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khidkee@khidkee_edu7 Sep 2021
Q: How did you decide on which of your (many) ideas was worth pursuing for your phd/research? #phdlife #ScienceTwitter #AcademicTwitter #Academia #gradschool #science
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I've never seen an antibody structure in the PDB where the authors were allowed to hide the sequence of all of the CDRs. PDB 6JMR, 6JMQ. All CDRs are "UNK" in sequence. I don't think this should be allowed. @buildmodels @PDBeurope @PDBj_en
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Manu Awasthi
@mnwsth24 Aug 2021
You are much more than the sum total of your past and current institutional affiliations.
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arghya manna@ArghaManna20 Aug 2021
I didn't expect that someone would draw comics about my daily life. I loved it . Thank you, team @khidkee_edu
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What’s it like to be a #science #storyteller through the medium of cartoons? Moubani Chakraborty continues her ‘A day in the life of...' series, this time on @ArghaManna, a cartoonist, who tells stories of science. bit.ly/3wVlOQK @ArghaManna #sciart
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Water is getting sprinkled out by an Amaltas tree. Have you ever seen this? This is called ‘Guttation’. It happens because of turgor pressure of the cells in case of excessive intake of ground water. VC: Surender Kumar, Forester DTR
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