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Category: Science Education
Posted on: November 10, 2008 9:26 AM, by Greg Laden

Sandy Porter at Discovering Biology in a Digital World has got an interesting offer:

Want to learn more about Parkinson's disease? See why a single nucleotide mutation messes up the function of a protein?

I have a short activity that uses Cn3D (a molecular viewing program from the NCBI) to look at a protein that seems to be involved in a rare form of Parkinson's disease and I could sure use beta testers.

If you'd like to do this,...

... the click here and get going on it!

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