Makio Murayama, a Japanese-American biochemist who was turned away from the Manhattan Project due to his heritage, rose to prominence for his work uncovering the link between the structure of ...

The atomic structure of hemoglobin, determined by Max Perutz and colleagues 4, showed that this residue position is located on the surface of the protein. The mutation makes sickle cell hemoglobin ...

Why is knowing the atomic structure of molecules useful? Learn why, and how information like this about protein structure is shared through a publicly available database.