Charlie Bond

The health of chemistry across the pipeline More students in the UK are studying chemistry at A-level than 20 years ago, but how does that translate to universities?

Hot on the heels of yesterday's news of Reading potentially closing its chemistry department, we've been looking at the past 20 years of data of A-level chemistry entrants, undergraduate chemistry numbers, and demography of university staff
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Single-molecule visualization of sequence-specific RNA binding by a designer PPR protein Abstract. Pentatricopeptide repeat proteins (PPR) are a large family of modular RNA-binding proteins, whereby each module can be modified to bind to a spec

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Our paper describing a cool FRET sensor for ssRNA using PPR proteins is out in NAR. A fun mixture of crystallography, single molecule FRET and some other methods. Special thanks to Nick Marzano, @bradyajohnston.bsky.social, Antoine van Oijen and Ian Small, University of Wollongong and UWA