Snake venom 'milkers' beware the proteins and not the snake!
Download MP3Proteins are the workhorses of life, with thousands overseeing and getting involved in reactions within our cells. Biologists have long dreamed of being able to make designer proteins to do specific tasks, and recently a team of scientists have made this happen. Syma and Tim talk to researchers who designed, and then made, a protein that neutralises a type of snake venom. In the first release we talk to Susana Vázquez and Tim Jenkins who were key members of the team, and in the second release, on Sunday, we chat with David Baker who was one of the recipients of 2024 Nobel prize for Chemistry for de novo protein design.
The paper is available here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08393-x
The paper is available here:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08393-x
Creators and Guests
Host
Tim Coulson
Author of The Universal History of Us published by Penguin 2024 Professor of Zoology, University of Oxford EcologyEvolution, Existence, Science
Guest
Susana Vazquez
My project is focused on using de novo TIM barrels scaffolds to create novel metalloenzymes
Guest
Tim Jenkins
Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine Center for Antibody Technologies
