#SciartSeptember Day 19 (random edition) Today's entry highlights alcohol dehydrogenase from horse liver, encapsulated in a wire frame🕸️ #sciart rendered with Blender 🔶

#SciartSeptember Day 20 (random edition) Spidroins are the predominant proteins in spider silk, a fascinating material that definitely needs to be featured 🕷️ 🕸️ #sciart rendered with Blender 🔶

#SciartSeptember Day 21 (random edition) Today's spotlight is on arsenolipids. Styling small molecules can sometimes be more challenging than biomolecules (because just have spheres to work with 🙃). But I enjoy that challenge and simplicity ☺️ #sciart rendered with Blender 🔶

#SciartSeptember Day 22 (random edition) So beautiful and yet so scary: viruses Here you see the Banna virus. #sciart rendered with Blender 🔶

#SciartSeptember Day 23 (random edition) DNA tightly snuggling between protein subunits 😊 #sciart rendered with Blender 🔶 #biochemistry #dna

#SciartSeptember Day 24 (random edition) Penicillin bound to the beta-lactam binding site of penicillin acylase 🫧 #sciart rendered with Blender 🔶 #biochemistry

#SciartSeptember Day 25 (random edition) The smell of freshly cut grass: 3-hexenyl acetate #sciart rendered with Blender 🔶 #chemistry

#SciartSeptember Day 26 (random edition) Ubiquitin is literally everywhere. So of course it needs to be featured! #sciart rendered with Blender 🔶 #biochemistry

#SciartSeptember Day 27 (random edition) A tribute to one of the best known enzymes in #biocatalysis: Candida antarctica Lipase B (CALB) ❄️ #sciart rendered with Blender 🔶

#SciartSeptember Day 28 (random edition) I love using wireframes for protein surface depiction. This time I made a protein out of wire 😊 #sciart rendered with Blender 🔶

#SciartSeptember Day 29 (random edition) Today I rendered a nucleosome core particle. A beautiful histone protein octamer with a DNA superhelix around it 🧬 #sciart rendered with Blender 🔶

#SciartSeptember Day 30 (random edition) This is the last day of the challenge. Thank you so much for joining me! Enjoy the last entry: a cute and fluffy mini protein 😊 I hope you had as much fun as I did. See you in October 💛 #sciart rendered with Blender 🔶

🪙Big win for a (literally) tiny biomolecule! Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have been awarded the #NobelPrize for their discovery of microRNA. #NobelPrize2024

🕸️ John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton have been awarded the #NobelPrize for “foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.” #NobelPrize2024

🪙 Congratulations to David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M. Jumper for winning the #NobelPrize in Chemistry! As a former scientist working in biocatalysis, it’s fascinating to me how protein design & prediction have evolved so rapidly in recent years. So well deserved!

I think is about time... See you on the other side 👋 I will be still around here from time to time, but hopefully transition fully in the near future.

If you're in need of festive (bio)molecules, here are some ⭐-shaped suggestions 1: A cyanostar 2: PDB 8I6G 3: PDB 6M6G 4: PDB 6Y83 SMILES for the cyanostar are below, so you don't have to draw it by hand (unlike me 😅) Feel free to add your favorite festive molecule!

Happy Holidays everyone ⭐! I hope you enjoy some relaxing time with your loved ones.

The final version of our work on the in-cell architecture of the mitochondrial respiratory chain is now online in Science Magazine 🎉 You can find the full story here science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Verena Resch did a wonderful job on the cover and animation👩‍🎨