Anastassia A. Vorobieva, Her Baby, and Jiayi Dou (IMAGE)

University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine

Anastassia A. Vorobieva, Her Baby, and Jiayi Dou

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Anastassia A. Vorobieva. holding her new son, with her research colleague Jiayi Dou. The two scientists led the design and testing of a beta-barrel protein that activates fluorescence. The new protein, built from scratch, is an advance in custom-designing proteins to precisely target small molecules.

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Institute for Protein Design/UW Medicine

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