Protein jockey at University of Cambridge, CSO at Qkine, Professor Visitante at USP.
Cyclist.
https://hyvonen.bioc.cam.ac.uk
Marko Hyvƶnen
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Here is the paper in @biochemsoc.bsky.social Bioscience Reports:
portlandpress.com/bioscirep/ar...
Just out is a little cautionary tale by @emmabelcher96.bsky.social
Turns out StrepTactin pulls down biotinylated proteins from mammalian cells and anti-FLAG antibody likes its own specific contaminants. Both of which can end up dominating your precious cryo-EM images.
You've been warned!
And just a month after the publication Daniel Erlanson has kindly highlighted it in the Practical Fragments blog. I think this is the third time our work has made it to the blog - must be a sign of us doing at least some things right.
practicalfragments.blogspot.com/2026/06/an-u...
Here is the paper itself if you want to take a peak.
doi.org/10.1021/acs....
I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +