signal-to-noise ratio

3 posts

COVID-19, due process and an SNR problem

8 min read
Scicomm adverse events following immunization AstraZeneca COVID-19 pandemic COVID-19 vaccines Covishield European Medicines Agency mRNA vaccines Omelas public health risk communication signal-to-noise ratio T Jacob John Ursula Le Guin

At a press conference streamed live on March 18, the head of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) announced that the body – which serves as the European Union’s drug and vaccine regulator – had conclud…

Powerful microscopy technique brings proteins into focus

5 min read
Scicomm ACE2 covalent bonds cryo-electron microscopy cryo-EM direct electron detector elastic scattering Falcon 4 field emission gun GABA inelastic scattering Joachim Frank kinetic energy mouse apoferritin Nobel Prize for Chemistry novel coronavirus sampling frequency signal-to-noise ratio structural biology Thermo Fisher Scientific X-ray crystallography

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) as a technology has become more important because the field that it revolutionised – structural biology – has become more important. The international scientific com…