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7/29/2022

SMALL SACRIFICE

How one protein urges an infected bacteria to commit suicide so as to save the rest of the colony from the same fate.

drawing: aloys lolo

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7/15/2022

UNNATURAL STUFF

How the fungus A.terreus and its CAD enzyme are used in industry to produce the building block for a variety of manmade polymers.

drawing by Koloman Moser (1868-1918)

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6/29/2022

DIMENSIONS
EPFL, numéro 5

avec LE dessinateur Melk Thalmann, nous découvrons le laboratoire INSTANT-LAB dirigée par le Professeur Simon Henein.

dessin: Melk Thalmann

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6/17/2022

TWO BIRDS, ONE STONE

The story of one surprising gene that gives rise not to one but to two proteins, each of which have very different functions.

print by Hilma af Klint (1862-1944)

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5/17/2022

SAPPED

How two proteins (HTR1 and HTR2) belonging to the rice blast fungus M.oryzae are able to weaken their host plant's immune response.

print by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)

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4/23/2022

LUCK OF THE DRAW

How one form of a protein (OAS1) seems to protect humans from developing the severe form of COVID-19.

print: National Library of Medicine (USA)

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4/13/2022

LIQUID STATES

L'histore d'une protéine - quasi universelle - qui laisse passer les molécules d'eau de part et d'autres de nos cellules.

dessin: aloys lolo

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3/31/2022

DIMENSIONS
EPFL, numéro 4

avec la dessinatrice Adrienne Barman, nous découvrons le laboratoire de biophysique expérimentale dirigée par la biophysicienne Suliana Manley

dessin: Adrienne Barman

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3/19/2022

I'LL BORROW THAT, THANK YOU

The story of a protein (PEG10) which is most probably of viral origin and that we use to move mRNA from one place to another.

screen print by John Walter (UK)

A BOOK

A new 'selected poems' by Pat Ingoldsby (Dublin) published by the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), Dublin.

On the occasion of Seamus Murphy's film THE PECULIAR SENSATION OF BEING PAT INGOLDSBY an excerpt of which is being shown at MoLIs, the museum asked if I would be willing to select poems from all of Pat's books, as well as edit the new selection (www.moli.ie).

Published March 2022
cover illustration by Francis Leavey (Dublin)

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