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Poster Prize Awarded at The Protein Society
Congratulations to Emily Schaffter (Clark University) for Differential Interactions between Calmodulin and the IQ Motifs of the HECT E3 Ubiquitin Ligases UBE3B and UBE3C» 11/25/2025
Video: Immunology and Cancer
Visit PDB-101 to watch a three-part series exploring the cellular and molecular details of the human immune response to cancer. Now available in English and Spanish.» 11/17/2025
Poster Prizes Awarded at LACA
Congratulations to Miguel Arbeláez (University of São Paulo and National University of Colombia) and Francisco Patrick Ferreira da Silva (Federal University of Ceará, Brazil)» 11/12/2025
PDB-101 Focus: Peak Performance
PDB-101 materials explore the structural biology of nutrition.» 11/11/2025
Education Corner: Cambridge Structural Database
Learn how CCDC is Celebrating 60 Years of Research and Education with Small Molecules» 11/06/2025
Powering a New Era in Structural Biology
Read how integrative modeling transforms how scientists understand molecular machines» 11/04/2025
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Explore Green Fluorescent Protein
In a new tutorial, use RCSB PDB resources to find and explore the 3D structure of GFP» 10/21/2025
Happy Birthday, Irving Geis
Celebrate Geis' birthday (October 18, 1908) with a tour of the Geis Digital Archive of his pioneering works of biomolecular art at PDB-101» 10/16/2025
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Issue 107 - October 2025
This issue highlights Extended PDB IDs; the Pairwise Alignment Tool, a new animation on Caffeine and Adenosine, and more.
Education Corner: Learn how CCDC is Celebrating 60 Years of Research and Education with Small Molecules.
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