How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins – Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org Illuminating science Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:10:47 -0400 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-colorful-ribbon-diagrams-became-the-face-of-proteins-20240823/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-colorful-ribbon-diagrams-became-the-face-of-proteins-20240823/#respond Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:43:59 +0000 https://www.quantamagazine.org/?p=140004 The post How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins first appeared on Quanta Magazine

]]> Jane Richardson never considered herself an artist. Then, in the late 1970s, the structural biologist found herself in need of some colored pencils, pastels and sketching paper. Richardson, a professor of biochemistry at Duke University, studied proteins, the biomolecules that underpin all the workings of life. At the time, structural biologists were getting better at creating 3D models of...

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