“If you are the smartest person in the room
– you’re in the wrong room.”
At the heart of my nitric oxide sensor is
bioinorganic chemistry, how a metal ion interacts with a protein to control
it’s function. The smarter I can be at designing this chemistry, the better the
nitric oxide sensor will be. With this in mind I was very excited to attend the
12th European Biological Inorganic Chemistry meeting. This meeting
not only brings together the top minds in Europe but also attracts people for
over 40 countries worldwide. Some the many attendees and presenters study
naturally occurring metal containing proteins. Our understanding of how these
proteins work helps us develop new medicines and produce mimics of these
systems that have evolved over millions of years.
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