Biophysics

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded a $1.86 million grant to Dr. Thorsten-Lars Schmidt to develop molecular tools that help researchers to understand membrane proteins. The R35 or “Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award” (MIRA) provides promising researchers with a five-year funding for a broader research progra...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently awarded a $1.86 million grant to Thorsten-Lars Schmidt, Ph.D., to develop molecular tools that help researchers to understand membrane proteins. The R35 or “Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award” (MIRA) provides promising researchers with a five-year funding for a broader research pr...

CRISPR-Cas9 has emerged as a potent genome editing tool that promises unprecedented control and specificity in targeting desired sequences and has been successfully employed in many cell lines and organisms. However, whether CRISPR-Cas9 can function in a setting where the target sequences can fold into stable secondary structures (alternat...