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Sorghum Susannah Tringe Molecular model showing polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) in green interacting with nucleosomes: histone H3 tail shown in purple, methylation site in yellow and ubiquitin in orange. (Credit: Janet Iwasa, University of Utah) Aerial photo of the switchgrass diversity panel late in the 2020 season at the Kellogg Biological Station in Michigan. (Robert Goodwin) Three nanobodies (blue) are shown bound to the tip of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein (red/pink). The nanobodies were engineered to be extremely effective at blocking the virus from entering a host cell. (Credit: UCSF) An amazing new material called an avalanching nanoparticle, which was co-developed by researchers in Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry, is featured in a cover story of the Jan. 14 edition of the world-renowned scientific journal Nature. A ribbon diagram rendering of the ORF8 structure predicted by AlphaFold 2 (blue), overlaid onto the actual structure (green) determined by the UC Berkeley-led team. (Credit: DeepMind)