NIH advisory group recommends $14,000 boost in postdoc pay

Researchers shouldn’t be in postdoc positions for more than 5 years, the group also suggests

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Five-Membered Rings Create Off-Zero Modes in Nanographene
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A low-cost electron microscope maps proteins at speed
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By flash freezing proteins and bombarding them with electrons, cryo–electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can map protein shapes with near-atomic resolution, offering clues to their function and revealing bumps and valleys that drug developers can target.
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Remote collaboration fuses fewer breakthrough ideas
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ChatGPT for chemistry: AI and robots join forces to build new materials
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Illuminating protein space with a programmable generative model
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Diamond photonic crystals assembled from DNA origami
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DNA-based nanoscale tetrapods crystallize into a rod-connected diamond cubic lattice that serves as a scaffold for atomic layer deposition of high refractive index materials.

Site-specific arrangement and structure determination of minor groove binding molecules in self-assembled three-dimensional DNA crystals
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Geometry guided crystallization of anisotropic DNA origami shapes
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Dear journals: stop hoarding our papers
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Why single-submission policies need to die (and what to do in the meantime).

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BREAKING NEWS
The 2023 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

Dave Pine of NYU Tandon recalls undergrad Wheaton College, hydrogen diffusion research Cornell Physics, spinodal decomposition Physics & Astronomy, basic science at #Exxon , polymer work UCSB ChE, and the multidisciplinary development of #softmatter physics

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Exodus of life scientists from academia reaches historic levels, new data show
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Fully addressable, designer superstructures assembled from a single modular DNA origami
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High-affinity binding to the SARS-CoV-2 spike trimer by a nanostructured, trivalent protein-DNA synthetic antibody
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Nanoscale synthetic antibody with 1, 2 or 3 identical arms terminating in a mini-binder protein that targets the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein

Creating Order in Ultrastable Phosphonate Metal–Organic Frameworks via Isolable Hydrogen-Bonded Intermediates pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…