New method takes snapshots of proteins as they fold
Monday, January 10, 2011 - 16:32
in Biology & Nature
People have only 20,000 to 30,000 genes (the number is hotly contested), but they use those genes to make more than 2 million proteins. It's the protein molecules that domost of the work in the human cell. After all, the word protein comes from the Greek prota, meaning "of primary importance."