Rendering Life Molecular: Models, Modelers, and Excitable Matter by Natasha Myers (review)

Proteins, like DNA, are sequences, but it is the arrangement of the polypeptide chain in space that enables it to bind molecules, catalyze reactions, transmit signals, and assemble into larger units. In other contexts, communicative movements can be explicitly acknowledged, even choreographed. Since...

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Published in:Technology and culture 2017-10, Vol.58 (4), p.1103-1104
Main Author: Creager, Angela N. H
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Berg, Paul
Crystallography
Genomics
Molecular chains
Proteins
Researchers
Technological change
X-rays
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Summary:Proteins, like DNA, are sequences, but it is the arrangement of the polypeptide chain in space that enables it to bind molecules, catalyze reactions, transmit signals, and assemble into larger units. In other contexts, communicative movements can be explicitly acknowledged, even choreographed. Since 2008, as Myers discusses, there has been a yearly "Dance Your PhD Contest" sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. [...]it was her vivid portrait of crystallographers at work that captivated me, more than the book's sometimes repetitive analysis of it.
ISSN:0040-165X
1097-3729
1097-3729
DOI:10.1353/tech.2017.0132