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Mark Foster lab in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The Ohio State University. We biophysical tools to study protein and nucleic acid structure, function, dynamics and interactions. go.osu.edu/fosterlab

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Alex Guseman @alexguseman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Im looking for a postdoc to help with protein engineering efforts. If you know who could be a good fit send them my way! see details below:
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Ohio Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (US) www.nature.com/naturecareer... #NMRjobs #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
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Ohio Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology - Open Rank - Oxford, Ohio (US) job with Miami University | 12861723
The Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Miami University seeks an Ohio Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology at the Asst./Assoc./Full Prof. level.
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MP Foster Lab @ The Ohio State University @fosterlab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
#osu-chembiochem Prof. Christine Thomas has been named editor-in-chief of RSC Dalton Transactions -- a leading source for original Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry Research #ohio-state click.rsc.org/rsps/m/votef...
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Introducing the new Dalton Transactions Editor-in-Chief, Professor Christine Thomas
Find out more about our new Editor-in-Chief
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
. @tuowang.bsky.social Save the date: the 2026 Gateway NMR Conference returns October 2–3 at Michigan State University in East Lansing! Opening reception Friday evening, full scientific program Saturday. Program, speakers & registration info coming soon at gatewaynmr.org 🧲 #NMRchat
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10th Gateway NMR Conference
2026 Gateway NMR Conference
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MP Foster Lab @ The Ohio State University @fosterlab.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
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Opinion | Anthropic’s Restraint Is a Terrifying Warning Sign
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
NMR Manager, The Department of Chemistry at the University of Louisville (Louisville, KY) to oversee use and maintenance of the Department’s Varian 400, 500, and 700 MHz NMR and Bruker EMXplus EPR instruments uofl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UofLCa... #NMRchat #NMRjobs 🧲
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Research Resource Facilities Specialist IV
Department: Chemistry Location: Belknap Campus Time Type: Full time Worker Type: Regular Job Req ID: R106809 Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Virology or...
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Make Money - Do Magnets @sararah.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Iowa State Dept of Molecular Biology is hiring for biomolecular solution NMR facility staff #NMRchat #Chemjobs #Chemsky (I am NOT the hiring manager for this position, but I will refer any questions you have to the appropriate person.) isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/IowaStateJob...
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Biomolecular NMR Facility Manager
Position Title: Biomolecular NMR Facility Manager Job Group: Professional & Scientific Required Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of related experience Preferred Qualifications...
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MP Foster Lab @ The Ohio State University @fosterlab.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Now out in #jbc doi.org/10.1016/j.jb... We use #nativeMS to simultaneously monitor ATP binding to multiple forms of open-ring Rho @biophysics-osu.bsky.social @gtresearch.bsky.social Great collaboration between the Wysocki and Foster groups
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MP Foster Lab @ The Ohio State University @fosterlab.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The USDA has a message for you...
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Great Plains Regional Annual Symposium on Protein NMR & Integrated Structural Biology, October 17-18, Iowa State University, Ames, IA Early-bird registration discount ends September 25 Best Oral Presentation & Travel Award Submission Deadline September 25 #NMRchat 🧲
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
RT Héctor Busto @hebusto.bsky.social Resonancia Magnética Nuclear, herramienta contra el fraude. La Estación Enológica de Haro ha afianzado la técnica de control de calidad y de lucha contra el sabotaje de marca en el sector del vino #NMRchat 🧲🍷 @brukercorporation.bsky.social
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Resonancia Magnética Nuclear, herramienta contra el fraude | La Rioja
La Estación Enológica de Haro ha afianzado la técnica de control de calidad y de lucha contra el sabotaje de marca en el sector del vino
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Federico Napoli @iomichiamofede.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Team effort with @darjarohden.bsky.social 💪🏼👩‍🔬 targeting my second favourite amino acid by solid-state NMR. Many motion timescales accessible. And the next amino acid is already in the crosshairs (my third favourite 😏). share.google/Q1ZzwJwDjjwA... (yeah nothing beats tryptophan)
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Arginine dynamics probed by magic-angle spinning NMR with a specific isotope-labeling scheme
The specific introduction of 1H-13C or 1H-15N moieties into otherwise deuterated proteins holds great potential for high-resolution solution and magic…
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Journal of Molecular Biology (open) Review Article, Application of NMR to Large RNAs, Brian D. Grossman, Jan Marchant*, Michael F. Summers* www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #NMRchat 🧲
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Application of NMR to Large RNAs
Heteronuclear NMR methodologies developed over the past 40 years have enabled atomic level insights into the solution-state structure and dynamics of …
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Wikipedia editors trying to fend off the onslaught of AI crap have crowdsourced some telltale signs of LLM-generated writing; it might be handy for editors and proofreaders generally. Thanks to @ellenrykers.com for pointing me to it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
NMRFx: Integrated Software for NMR Data Processing, Visualization, Analysis and Structure Calculation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Chris Waudby @chriswaudby.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I’m carrying out a short survey of NMR TITAN users - if you’ve made use of this tool in your research, or have suggestions for its future development, I’d be grateful for your input: forms.gle/MMXYwSozszhi... #nmrchat
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NMR TITAN user survey
This survey aims to assess the impact of NMR TITAN on biomolecular research and identify priorities for future development. The form should take approximately 5 minutes to complete. Your responses may...
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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Get important feedback from your community and move your work forward. Share your research at #bps2026! Submit an abstract today buff.ly/oOjstk6
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BPS2026 Annual Meeting | Biophysical Society
The BPS2026 Annual Meeting in San Francisco will showcase Biophysics by the Bay, highlighting the exciting advances in science and technology brought forth by big data and AI.  This year’s program…
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ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · 19/08/2025
How should scientists respond to groups that reject, reinterpret or claim scientific findings for their own political purposes?
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Listen carefully: Teaching students to navigate science-scepticism
Science no longer enjoys unlimited and universal trust. An array of groups are questioning scientific wisdom. What does this mean for students and researchers? Gabriel Dorthe studies how trust and mis...
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Sarah Keane @keanelab.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Grace developed a virtual screening approach focused on cavities identified in the (NPSL2) RNA structure. She then validated screening "hits" experimentally. Importantly, this approach is broadly applicable to any RNA with a known 3D structure.
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Structure guided discovery of small molecule ligands targeting the oncomiR-1 NPSL2 hairpin - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Structure guided discovery of small molecule ligands targeting the oncomiR-1 NPSL2 hairpin
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Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) @fmpberlin.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
⏰Join us for the NMR Symposium, Nov 26–27, 2025, celebrating our new 1.2 GHz NMR spectrometer. To present a poster, send your abstract to NMR2025@fmp-berlin.de. Registrations are open until September 15th!
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Sjors Scheres @sjorsscheres.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Sofia Lövestam's vault structure is now online in Structure @cellpress.bsky.social. 🥳 How beautifully explorative is #cryoEM! We never planned to do this. The vaults just came down with #amyloids from human brain tissue, and Sofia decided to have a closer look. www.cell.com/structure/fu...
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Cryo-EM structure of the vault from human brain reveals symmetry mismatch at its caps
Lövestam and Scheres present a cryo-EM structure of vault particles, found during tau filament extraction from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) brain tissue. They reveal a symmetry shift at the va...
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ǝʞɐlq ǝʌɐp @blakestah.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Last week's EO is in clear violation of federal law that gives Institute Directors e.g., the Director of NINDS or NIGMS etc, the final decision making authority in issuing grants of more than $50,000. The Institute Directors know this. See b), 3), a) www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/... 1/
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42 U.S. Code § 284 - Directors of national research institutes
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Radoslav (Rade) Pavlovic @rade-pavlovic.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
After receiving the sad news about the passing of Edwin Becker, I ran across his report in Analytical Chemistry titled "A Brief History of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance". It is a well-written piece that will entertain the magnetic resonance enthusiast. #chemsky #NMRsky pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Nature Communications (open) Seedless: on-the-fly pulse calculation for NMR experiments, Charles J. Buchanan, Gaurav Bhole, Gogulan Karunanithy, Virginia Casablancas-Antràs, Adeline W. J. Poh, Benjamin G. Davis, Jonathan A. Jones* & Andrew J. Baldwin* www.nature.com/articles/s41... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
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Seedless: on-the-fly pulse calculation for NMR experiments - Nature Communications
The authors develop a computational tool to design NMR pulses, based on the GRadient Assisted Pulse Engineering approach, that can calculate optimal pulse shapes on the fly during the measurements, to...
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Congressman Bill Foster @repbillfoster.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
It’s difficult to overstate just how reckless and incompetent this is. mRNA technology saved millions of lives during the COVID-19 crisis. Now, RFK Jr. is undermining the science that could protect us from the next pandemic—and putting American lives at risk.
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RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development
Twenty-two projects, totaling $500 million, to develop vaccines using mRNA technology will be halted, the health secretary announced. “I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public healt...
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MP Foster Lab @ The Ohio State University @fosterlab.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Negotiating with terrorists? This sure looks like a hostage situation.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Asking for help is not admitting failure, but rather using your resources to ensure that expectations are met. Knowing how to ask for help ensures that you get help that is actually useful, or even crucial, in meeting your goals. cen.acs.org/careers/care... #chemsky
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How to get helpful help
Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN): Keeping you up to date with the chemistry news that matters most. Published by the American Chemical Society.
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Bumps on the Road: The Way to Clean Relaxation Dispersion Magic-Angle Spinning NMR, Ben P. Tatman*, Vidhyalakshmi Sridharan, Motilal Uttarkabat, Christopher P. Jaroniec, Matthias Ernst, Petra Rovó, Paul Schanda* pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #NMRchat 🧲
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Bumps on the Road: The Way to Clean Relaxation Dispersion Magic-Angle Spinning NMR
Microsecond-to-millisecond motions are instrumental for many biomolecular functions, including enzymatic activity and ligand binding. Bloch-McConnell Relaxation Dispersion (BMRD) Nuclear Magnetic Reso...
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
@acs.org is recognizing Jennifer A. Doudna with the Priestley Medal for her discoveries on ribozyme function, the Dicer RNase enzyme, double-stranded RNA processing, and CRISPR gene editing, along with her impactful international science leadership. cen.acs.org/people/award... #chemsky 🧪
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Jennifer Doudna is named 2026 Priestley Medalist
The award recognizes the biochemist for discoveries on ribozyme function and CRISPR gene editing, and international science leadership
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The 64th Annual Rocky Mountain Conference on Magnetic Resonance (RMCMR) EPR Symposium will take place August 3-7, 2025 at the Snowbird Resort & Conference Center, Snowbird, Utah rockychem.com #NMRchat #NMR #NMRevents #ESR #EPR 🧲
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MP Foster Lab @ The Ohio State University @fosterlab.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Our love affair with native mass spectrometry for studying protein-ligand interactions continues... www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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Simultaneous ligand binding to intact and partially formed ATP binding sites in the hexameric termination factor Rho
Thermodynamic coupling between ligand binding sites affords macromolecular machines a means to coordinate processive function. Because these machines may be compositionally complex, quantifying and in...
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MP Foster Lab @ The Ohio State University @fosterlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
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How Trump’s D.E.I. Cuts Are Hurting Rural White Americans Too
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Bluefors @bluefors.com · 08/07/2025
On June 10, #Cryomech HeRL02-RM #helium reliquefier was installed at The Ohio State University on their Bruker UltraStabilized 800 MHz #NMR system (aka pumped magnet). We’re thrilled to share that it's running closed-loop with no compromise on data quality! #heliumrecovery #CoolForProgress
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Volker Blum @aimsduke.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Hard to say it better and more evenly than the article below. The NSF really needs our support. What has been happening to NSF incredibly confusing. Defunding and physically disassembling the NSF would be a mistake of epic proportions. No one benefits. We will lose a critical innovation driver.
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findlatergroup.bsky.social @findlatergroup.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 open rank position in Biochemistry apply now: aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF01995 #ChemSky do your thing, repost please!
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Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in BioChemistry
University of California, Merced is hiring. Apply now!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Another powerful analysis, this time of the President's budget, if enacted. We need to make sure this does not happen!
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MP Foster Lab @ The Ohio State University @fosterlab.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Fearless team preparing to tackle the Big Darby! (Creek)
A group of people wearing life jackets and holding paddles.
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MP Foster Lab @ The Ohio State University @fosterlab.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Meanwhile..... The Life Graduate Science Students at OSU showcase their research achievements. gradsch.osu.edu/news/2025/06...
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Life Science Interdisciplinary Graduate Program Symposium brings together students and faculty to celebrate a year of research | Graduate School
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Biophysical Society @biophysicalsoc.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Learn about the US immigration process, current policy, and how to maximize your chances of immigration success during this webinar presented by the law firm of Getson & Schatz, P.C. This event is FREE to everyone, but registration is required. my.biophysics.org/Events/Calen...
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Eric Strobel @estrobel.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Our paper describing a method for measuring cotranscriptional RNA folding using high-throughput RNA chemical probing is out @natcomms.nature.com!
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HillerLab @hillerlab.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Introducing in-cyclo NMR, a breakthrough method led by first author @masgu.bsky.social at @biozentrum.unibas.ch! This method combines high-resolution NMR with ATP regeneration & phosphate removal to resolve kinetics & dynamics of molecular machines - all in one experiment! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Mechanism of ATP hydrolysis in the Hsp70 BiP nucleotide-binding domain - Nature Communications
Mas et al introduce in-cyclo NMR to quantify all states and kinetic steps of Hsp70 chaperones ATPase cycle. In-cyclo NMR will enable studies of other molecular machines at an unprecedented level of de...
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
President Donald J. Trump’s executive order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” is drawing strong criticism from scientists who say the order gives the administration a way to discount scientific evidence it doesn’t like or agree with. cen.acs.org/policy/Gold-... 🧪
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‘Gold Standard Science’ may lead to discarding valid research
Trump’s executive order gives political appointees power to enforce standards that scientists call unattainable
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Magnetic Resonance News @nmr900.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
National Gateway Ultrahigh Field NMR Center Users from academia, national labs, and industry are invited to apply for NMR time at 1.2 GHz, including justification for ultrahigh magnetic field Fees External Academic: $25/hr Industry: $200/hr gateway-nmr.osu.edu #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
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National Gateway Ultrahigh Field NMR Facility | Ohio State
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MP Foster Lab @ The Ohio State University @fosterlab.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Fun to celebrate inauguration of the National Gateway Ultrahigh Field NMR Center at Ohio State with the 1.2 GHz Bruker Ascend Spectrometer @osuchembiochem.bsky.social #nmr @brukercorporation.bsky.social
Group of scientists cutting red ribbon with large red scissors in front of a large 1.2 GHz NMR instrument.
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