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Multidrug Resistance in Bacteria Sometimes miracles of modern medicine can have their downsides. A streak of 20th century medical innovation created many important antibiotics used today, and was responsible for dramatically lowering the impact of infec…

A physicist, computer scientist, and biomedical engineer walk into a bar…and begin to play pool. The biomedical engineer takes aim and sends the cue ball into the rack, scattering the other fifteen balls across the table. The physicist watches as the cue…

Our Instagram and blog often make reference to PDB files. We briefly mentioned the Protein Data Bank (also abbreviated as PDB) in our previous blog about docking which may have generated some confusion. This blog post will explain the use of PDB files an…

Machine Learning and Cloud Computing are a couple of the hottest topics in computational science right now, but one of the most important topics in computational drug design is something you may not have even heard of! Protein-protein docking — often sim…

Caffeine has been consumed by humans all over the world for thousands of years. An ancient Chinese legend says the Emperor Shen Nung first discovered tea in 2437 BCE when the wind blew leaves into his boiling water. He was intrigued by the pleasant aroma…

Since the 1927 release of the classic silent film Metropolis, the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been heavily explored in various forms of media. Until recently, however, limited computational power has kept it squarely in the realm of scien…

Throughout the day our bodies are bombarded with any number of foreign pathogens, some of which are harmless, others of which are potentially lethal. We are constantly fighting off these invaders to keep ourselves healthy — a good thing to keep in mind n…

"Cloud computing has long since left the “buzzword stage” of its life cycle, with most major companies integrating it into their technology and workflow to some degree. Cloud computing is often described through a number of analogies — from a “data lake”…

As Thanksgiving approaches, we at Macromoltek would like to express our appreciation for some of the founding scientists of modern medicine. Without their commitment to the discipline, it would not be where it is today. There are many iconic figures in t…

There is an adage in biochemistry: “Never waste pure thoughts on an impure protein” (1). The straightforward definition of protein purification is the isolation of only one type of molecule from the soup of many molecules — but the process itself is rare…