Ad Bax

Ahead of his 70th birthday, Adriaan (Ad) Bax, Distinguished Investigator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spoke about his career in science.

1 INTRODUCTION Residual dipolar couplings (RDCs), measured by solution NMR spectroscopy, contain precise information on bond vector orientations in proteins and nucleic acids (Chiliveri et al. 2022; Prestegard et al. 2004; Tjandra and Bax 1997; Tolman et al. 1995).

Introduction Click to copy section linkSection link copied! Breath droplets generated during reopening of transiently closed small airways enable noninvasive sampling of the deep lung epithelial lining fluid (ELF). (1) Closure of small airways is associated with fluid surface tension when their diameter reduces during deep exhalation. Subsequent inhalation breaks open the occluded channels, which constitutes a potent mechanism of breath droplet generation.