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Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology
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![An illustrative image of small peptide helices.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-04/protien-illustration-uc-santa-barbara.png?itok=7P1UbUrL)
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Matt Perko
This is a story about proteins, how they malfunction, and what cells do to prevent that.
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![2024 Goldwater scholars](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-04/3up-portrait-hero-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=k7nPYUgs)
Clockwise, from left: Matthew Unger, Riya Nilkrant, Xuanwei Liang, Isaac Hair, Anika Jena
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![Two views: An Etruscan shrew and the breeching hide of a blue whale](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-03/shrew-whale-2-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=AMjiD2sm)
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Shrew: Trebol-a/CC BY-SA 3.0 Whale: Jeff Jacobsen
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![a cathedral in the middle of a mountain town in Colombia](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-02/yarumal-alzheimers-istock-uc-santa-barbara-small.jpg?itok=IRZY1Iri)
Yarumal, a municipality in the foothills of the Andes north of Medellín, is one of several communities in Colombia that host a large kindred with a genetic form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease
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![A blue macrophage engulfs a magenta lymphocyte, as rendered by ChatGPT4.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-01/macrophage-dalle-2-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=HnRSYiQY)
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ChatGPT4, prompt by Denise Montell
A blue macrophage engulfs a magenta lymphocyte, as rendered by ChatGPT4.
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![Portrait of Kenneth Kosik](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2023-09/ken-kosik-hero-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=tMfZulB4)
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Matt Perko
Kenneth S. Kosik