{"id":123891,"date":"2021-06-16T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T00:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/synthetic-protein-lattices-explained"},"modified":"2021-06-16T17:24:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T00:24:10","slug":"synthetic-protein-lattices-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/synthetic-protein-lattices-explained","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic protein lattices explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sRjKfjMtcJI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check out my short video in which I explain some super exciting research in the area of nanotechnology: de novo protein lattices! I specifically discuss a journal article by Ben-Sasson et al. titled \u201cDesign of biologically active binary protein 2D materials\u201d.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Here, I explain an exciting nanotechnology paper \u201cDesign of biologically active binary protein 2D materials\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-020-03120-8).\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41586-020-03120-8).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though I am not involved in this particular research myself, I have worked in adjacent areas such as de novo engineering of aggregating antimicrobial peptides, synthetic biology, nanotechnology-based tools for neuroscience, and gene therapy. I am endlessly fascinated by this kind of computationally driven de novo protein design and would love to incorporate it in my own research at some point in the future.<\/p>\n<p>I am a PhD candidate at Washington University in St. Louis and the CTO of the startup company Conduit Computing. I am also a published science fiction writer and a futurist. To learn more about me, check out my website: <a href=\"https:\/\/logancollinsblog.com\/\">https:\/\/logancollinsblog.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out my short video in which I explain some super exciting research in the area of nanotechnology: de novo protein lattices! I specifically discuss a journal article by Ben-Sasson et al. titled \u201cDesign of biologically active binary protein 2D materials\u201d. Here, I explain an exciting nanotechnology paper \u201cDesign of biologically active binary protein 2D [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1523,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123891","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\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}