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...extension is crowned by a supreme statement, the upward arc of his brise de soleil. It's a sunscreen with "wings" made of 72 steel-pipe ribs. They rise and fall from a diagonal spine like a bird on an ascending flight path. Technically, Calatrava's great wings are functional--when closed they shield the museum's arching skylight. In fact, their real function is pure glorious gesture, a flourish of structural brio. When opened their lovely wingspan gives the museum a stratospheric silhouette and Milwaukee a stunning new landmark...
Because a protein's structure is essential to its function, those proteins that perform similar functions often have stretches where they are similarly shaped. Instead of focusing on the structure of just one target, Vertex homes in on entire families of proteins as it seeks out its leads. This is done by crystallizing a protein of interest and exposing it to intense X-ray beams. The way those beams are scattered reveals how atoms along the molecule's length are arranged--information that is converted into a protein structure by computers. Chemists use this structure to digitally model molecules that...
...lieutenants, and very nearly killed the man on whom the world has pinned its hopes for the immediate future of Afghanistan. "We were still picking up the wounded 1 1/2 hours later when the Taliban came," Karzai told TIME. "In those circumstances, you just try your best to function normally...
...theories about disease as a social construct. I was officially, publicly healthy. Now, with almost no objective medical change, I am officially, publicly sick. How will that change the actual effect of the disease? Without, I hope, distorting the experiment, I predict that this notion of disease as a function of attitudes about disease will turn out to be more valid than I would have suspected eight years...
According to Morgenstern, only one person has the key to the room in the Holworthy Hall basement that houses the council voting computer, whose only function is to provide a database for elections such as this...