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1:56:20the atmosphere of of an exoplanet. He waited for the exoplanet to pass in front of the star and then used the spectra of that to figure out what the planet was doing to the star spectra. Figured out that there's actually a bunch of atomic sodium in that transiting gas giant. Huge. >> It's a fun fun concept. 2003 computational denovo protein design. >> Yes. Um this was David Baker at the University of Washington. He used the Rosetta software suite to engineer top 7, which is the protein that you're seeing on the screen over there. That's the world's first entirely custom synthetic protein that's designed

1:57:02completely from scratch. >> This is where we're starting to become

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    America 250: The Breakthroughs That Built American Science — Part 2

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    America 250: The Breakthroughs That Built American Science — Part 2

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