Zhai Yuanliang, now a professor at the University of Hong Kong, and Bik-Kwoon Tye, a professor emeritus at Cornell University and a visiting professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, display a model of a DNA chain structure that has the potential to help design cancer drugs, at HKUST on Aug 2, 2018. On Jan 5 last …
Zhai Yuanliang talks his students during a lab experiment at the University of Hong Kong. Zhai explained that cryo-electron microscopy has a very high resolution, enabling the observation of structures that were previously unseen such as what is at the core of DNA replication — the MCM protein. The MCM protein is an enzyme responsible for unwinding the DNA double …