{"id":106606,"date":"2020-05-05T21:03:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T04:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/hidden-symmetry-discovered-in-chemical-kinetic-equations-significant-for-drug-design-genetics-more"},"modified":"2020-05-05T21:03:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T04:03:40","slug":"hidden-symmetry-discovered-in-chemical-kinetic-equations-significant-for-drug-design-genetics-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/hidden-symmetry-discovered-in-chemical-kinetic-equations-significant-for-drug-design-genetics-more","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Symmetry Discovered in Chemical Kinetic Equations \u2013 Significant for Drug Design, Genetics &amp; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hidden-symmetry-discovered-in-chemical-kinetic-equations-significant-for-drug-design-genetics-more2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rice University researchers have discovered a hidden symmetry in the chemical kinetic equations scientists have long used to model and study many of the chemical processes essential for life.<\/p>\n<p>The find has implications for drug design, genetics and biomedical research and is described in a study published on April 21, 2020, in the <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>. To illustrate the biological ramifications, study co-authors Oleg Igoshin, Anatoly Kolomeisky and Joel Mallory of Rice\u2019s Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP) used three wide-ranging examples: protein folding, enzyme catalysis and motor protein efficiency.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Igoshin said the symmetry \u201cwasn\u2019t that hard to prove, but no one noticed it before.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rice University researchers have discovered a hidden symmetry in the chemical kinetic equations scientists have long used to model and study many of the chemical processes essential for life. The find has implications for drug design, genetics and biomedical research and is described in a study published on April 21, 2020, in the Proceedings of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,412,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-genetics","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}