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Stories about: Folding

Biologists Can Now Watch Proteins as They Fold One of the most important processes underlying life as we know it is taking place several times per second in each living cell, where proteins undergo a change called folding. This allows them to become specialized in various roles inside other fundamental processes, experts say.The very function of a protein is dict... 11 January 2011 05:46 GMT New Method of Predicting Protein Structures A while back, researchers at the University of Missouri presented their MULTICOM system. The advanced computer software was touted as being capable of predicting the structure of proteins, a feat that made it of great interest to scientists. Being able to infer what a protein might look like is of incredible importan... 19 May 2010 03:03 GMT Kyocera Works on a Kinetic Energy-Powered Phone Concept We have seen a lot of interesting mobile phone concepts wandering in the wild lately, including a wide range of handsets that use solar energy as power source, not to mention devices that come with a variety of music capabilities, or an idea of a phone made from a lot of small pieces that would be able to also work a... 23 April 2009 03:51 GMT