WEEK 23 · EXTREMOPHILE FOCUS

Do one thing.
Then you are ahead.

Until now you trained a detective on a general catalogue of fingerprints. This week you go to the partner's neighbourhood. Extremophiles live where most life would die: boiling springs, salt flats, Antarctic ice. Their enzymes are tough, which is exactly what industry wants (a detergent enzyme that works in hot water, a process enzyme that survives a 70 °C reactor). You pull sequences from UniProt for the partner's …

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LabXchange simulations on protein expression/purification or enzyme assays

LabXchange simulations on protein expression/purification or enzyme assays (search the library; verify availability) so the partner's words land on a picture

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By Sunday you should be able to say: “I can hand a scientist 20 candidates and explain, for each one, why it is there and how sure I am.”

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