All for one and one for all to fight flu | Nature
Antibodies have been engineered to recognize diverse strains of influenza, including both the A and B types of virus that cause human epidemics. Are we moving closer to achieving ‘universal’ protection against all flu strains?
Original article | Research paper
fMRIPrep: a robust preprocessing pipeline for functional MRI | Nature Methods
Preprocessing of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) involves numerous steps to clean and standardize the data before statistical analysis. Generally, researchers create ad hoc preprocessing workflows for each dataset, building upon a large inventory of available tools. The complexity of these workflows has snowballed with rapid advances in acquisition and processing. In this paper, the authors introduce fMRIPrep, an analysis-agnostic tool that addresses the challenge of robust and reproducible preprocessing for fMRI data.
AlphaFold @ CASP13: “What just happened?” | Some Thoughts on a Mysterious Universe Blog
In this blog post, Dr. AlQuraishi discusses the significance of DeepMind’s result, their methodology, and how it relates to existing methods. Then he discusses the sociology: how people reacted, why we did so, what this means for the academic discipline of protein structure prediction (and life science companies), and how to move forward.