The Protein That Refuses to Have One Shape
Textbooks promised one sequence, one structure. Lymphotactin never read them.
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America Has a Peptide Obsession
A word that once lived in biochemistry textbooks now sells serums, injections and an entire theory of self-improvement.
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Charles Yanofsky and the Biology Behind the Breakthrough
He showed that genes and proteins line up, then spent decades working out how a cell reads the fine print.
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A Protein That Switches Folds. Why Should We Care?
Because our best prediction tools were trained to give one answer.
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The 1964 Experiment Where Two Wrongs Made a Right
A broken enzyme, a second mutation and an early hint of how residues talk to each other.
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Anfinsen's Ribonuclease Is Still the Best Demo in Biochemistry
Unfold an enzyme, take away the denaturant and watch it remember what it was.
Does the Nobel Prize Understand Modern Science?
The rules suit a handful of names at a lab bench. Today's discoveries come with author lists and server bills.
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Can We Design a Protein That Has Never Existed?
We already have. The harder question is whether we can make new ones that do useful work.
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How Two Scientists Took an Antibody Apart
One used an enzyme, the other used chemistry. Together they found the molecule behind a whole class of drugs.
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