LOCKR Human-Made Protein Switch (VIDEO)

University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine

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Researchers at the UW Medicine Institute for Protein Design in Seattle explain how they, and researchers at University of California San Francisco, created a synthetic protein switch, LOCKR, from scratch. The talk about the several uses they found for versions of LOCKR in controlling several processes in living cells.

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