The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a bumper crop of home-made and commercially manufactured face masks. Almost daily, new ‘improved’ designs appear in the market, or online.

The establishment of generic and efficient production systems of proteins suitable for structural and functional studies is one of the main challenges in current proteomics efforts as well as in ...

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