Stephen Curry: scientist who uses X-rays to look at the atoms of protein molecules. Wonders about the place of science in the world. Works at Imperial College but views expressed here are his own.
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Category Archives: Protein Crystallography
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without Carbon
I may not know much about Chemistry but I know what I like. And I like carbon. In fact, I’ve decided that it’s my favourite element. I’ll tell you why in the short video below, which is part of the … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Protein Crystallography
Tagged Carbon, Royal Institution, science communication
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What’s your favourite colour?
What’s your favourite colour? Anyone who has socialised with small children will have been confronted with this serious-faced interrogation at some point. It’s the sort of question that erupts as soon as young kids learn to verbalise the jumble of … Continue reading
Moving Molecules
Regular readers will know that molecules are my thing, that my scientific endeavours are devoted to revealing the intricate architecture of proteins — the molecular machines that sustain life. They will also know that I have at times struggled with the … Continue reading
Posted in Protein Crystallography, Science
Tagged Animation, Drew Berry, molecules, Protein Crystallography
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Jam Yesterday
On a grey day back in October I made my way along Albemarle Street to the Royal Institution for the filming of DemoJam, a lively and light-hearted program of science produced by Jonathan Sanderson and the rest of the gang … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Protein Crystallography, Science
Tagged RI Channel, Royal Institution, Video
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Real and False Economy
Last week I went to Germany to talk to a pharmaceutical company about my work on the blood protein, human serum albumin. It set me thinking. But first I need to tell you about albumin. Albumin is a surprisingly abundant … Continue reading
Posted in Protein Crystallography, Science, Scientific Life
Tagged impact, Science Policy
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Meet me on a Monday
This is shameless, shameless self-promotion but I was interviewed back in May by Carl Carruthers for his Meet a Scientist Monday podcast, which has gone live today. The interview was long enough ago for me — being of advanced years … Continue reading
Transport of Delight
I spent most of last weekend and all of yesterday finalising a chapter I had been asked to contribute to an upcoming monograph on human serum albumin. Monograph is a fancy word for book in academia. And academia is a … Continue reading
Posted in Protein Crystallography, Science
Tagged albumin, Protein Crystallography, science communication
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The Speed of X-rays
I was back at the Diamond Light Source today — the synchrotron that we use to blast protein crystals with X-rays to figure out the structures of protein molecules. The beamlines at the synchrotron where we do our experiments have … Continue reading
Posted in Protein Crystallography, Science
Tagged Diamond Light Source, Modern technology, Protein Crystallography
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The Perutz Effect
I have Jim Franks of Newton TV to thank for the opportunity to sit around a table with some of the current scientists at the world-famous MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology to talk about the legacy of its founder, Max … Continue reading
Posted in History of Science, Protein Crystallography, Science, Science & Media
Tagged Max Perutz, Protein Crystallography, Video
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Prize Your Imagination
On Wednesday last I was fortunate to find myself an outlier among the great and the good at the Wellcome Trust Image Awards for 2011, where hefty glass slabs were being handed out by Adam Rutherford as prizes to imaginative … Continue reading
Small and Very Far Away
As Father Ted might have explained it to Dougal, this one is very small: Atom but that one is far away. Mars (NASA) And yet it is the distant planet and not the nearby atom that seems to excite the … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Protein Crystallography, Science
Tagged cosmos, Father Ted, molecules, proteins
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Padding times three
Henry started it by banging on about his iPad. Somehow the subject of blogging came up and I mentioned the BlogPress app, so here I am testing it out. I used it once on MT4 but this is my first … Continue reading
