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by theophrastus
3944 days ago
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And i had a committee member forbid me from including quantum effects in the modeling of my enzyme. He said it was "too speculative". All science is speculative, until it isn't. You would be well served to reduce your "highly speculative" filters. That is, continue to propose your interesting new chains of causation. If there were braver people than me (which shouldn't be hard) then perhaps understanding enzyme mechanisms would be further along by now. |
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Also, did you push back against the committee member? Show data? At least create a plausible doubt in their mind?
The reason enzyme mechanisms are so hard to study is that getting proteins into a state where you can capture data from that femtosecond where the reaction occurs is hard. Recent improvements in free electron lasers for fourth generation synchrotrons will greatly improve this.