by Ken Chiacchia | May 14, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
A Syracuse University team used Bridges-2 to correct earlier, mistaken simulations of the hemoglobin protein (lower left) and its oxygen-carrying heme group (center) and determine how carbon monoxide (blue and red spheres, top center) competes with oxygen (purple and...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 17, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Credit: Illustration: NASA, ESA, and JPL-Caltech; Science: NASA, ESA, and D. Apai and E. Buenzli (University of Arizona) Study of Substellar Objects Using Bridges-2 Sheds Light on Globular Cluster Age and Early Development of Universe Collections of stars called...
by Ken Chiacchia | Apr 7, 2025 | Anton, Anton 2, Science Highlights
Adobe Stock 508244320 “Tucking In” of Viral Capsid Protein Allows Passage of Giant Structure through Nuclear Pore, Allowing Virus to Take Over The hepatitis B virus causes about 800,000 deaths per year, on par with HIV and the malaria parasite. However, as it spreads,...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 19, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Adobe Stock 270629805 Number and Type of Mutations Relate to Risk of Death at Earlier Age, Suggesting Focus for Future Detection and Prevention Sudden death in children is rare but devastating. A team led from Northwestern University used PSC’s flagship Bridges-2...
by Ken Chiacchia | Mar 5, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
Adobe Stock 138718634 AI Tool Would Enable Industry to Predict Temperatures that Require Maintenance or Repair, Improving Safety and Making Repairs Less Expensive Continuously welded rails were a cost game-changer in the railway industry, which contributes over $27...
by Ken Chiacchia | Feb 21, 2025 | Bridges-2, Science Highlights
The pointed end of HIV’s outer viral shell, its capsid, helps it squeeze into host cells’ nuclear pore. A team from Pitt has simulated the virus in PSC’s Bridges-2 to show how a twist in a critical protein may help it shoehorn in. Based on a figure from Yang DT et al....
