Colloquy Episode 01 : Proteins - Where and How?
Channel: Emulsion
Date: 2020-04-26

What exactly makes coronavirus dangerous? Trishit Banerjee (Graduate Student, Tohoku University) is in conversation with Jash Mota (Co-Founder, Centauri Robotics) where they discuss proteins, how are they formed from DNA, what exactly is a DNA and how do proteins move in a cell in this hour-long conversation.

Aimed at making the general people understand the technical details of various areas in science in simplest terms, Colloquy is an initiative by Emulsion to bridge the scientific community with everyone in the society.

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Additional links for advanced reading :

1. A. Rich and JD Watson’s paper in 1954 describing early understanding of relations between DNA and RNA :
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC534159/

2. F. Crick’s paper in 1958 describing ‘Central Dogma’ (DNA to RNA to Protein process) for the first time : https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a372ca9f9a61ed6e86178a7/t/5debdabaaf06d83e3e33da13/1575738046533/ON+PROTEIN+SYNTHESIS+.pdf

(If you want to see the original physical copy of the paper, Wellcome Library has digitised it at : https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b1817789x#?z=-0.8683%2C-0.1334%2C2.8832%2C1.6669&cv=0)

3. DNA Replication Mechanisms explained in ‘Molecular Biology of the Cell’ (4th Edition) :
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26850/

4. The process of DNA to RNA to Protein explained by Scitable (Nature Education) :
https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/translation-dna-to-mrna-to-protein-393/

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