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How Colorful Ribbon Diagrams Became the Face of Proteins.

Proteins are often visualized as cascades of curled ribbons and twisted strings, which both reveal and conceal the mess of atoms that make up these impossibly complex molecules.

By Yasemin Saplakoglu via @QuantaMagazine

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-colorful-ribbon-diagrams-became-the-face-of-proteins-20240823/

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