I finally have some good news! Even though my initial screen of the 3000 mutants did not yield any improvement, my secondary screen with 1600 mutants ended up going much better. I got a mutant that gave me 37% better performance than my parent (original) enzyme, and a couple of other that were in the 20s in percentage improvement.
Just last week, on an unassuming Thursday, the astro(physics) community got served two humongous cakes at once. Both the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory (IceCube) have ground-breaking scientific findings to share with the class!
A friendly desert community where the sun is hot, the mountains are beautiful, and mysterious sounds echo between our walls while we don’t even pretend to sleep.
1. What’s your favorite place to go to study or hang out at Caltech?
This summer I had the incredible opportunity to do a 10-week internship at Gilead Sciences in Foster City, CA. For those unfamiliar, Gilead Sciences, Inc. is a research-based biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of innovative medicines.