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A Near Perfect Solution to a Decades-Old Biology Problem
by Sebastian Rowefigures by Jovana Andrejevic
First conceptualized in the 1960s, the protein folding problem – how to predict a protein’s structure from its sequence – has been one of the main concerns of structural biologists worldwide.…
Genetic tools create new opportunities for decoding protein structures
Proteins are made up of linear sequences of amino acids but understanding how these amino acids fold to form a three-dimensional structure is notoriously difficult. Knowing what a protein looks like in 3D is often necessary for understanding how it…
Gamers and scientists work together to conquer a cancer-causing menace
A unique partnership between academic laboratories, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO), and Mars, Incorporated hopes to leverage the power of crowdsourced science to develop new protein structures that can degrade the aflatoxin…