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Scientists Are Designing Artisanal Proteins for Your Body

26-Dec-2017

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Our bodies make roughly 20,000 different kinds of proteins.

A protein’s particular shape enables it to do a particular job.

Can now choose the building blocks required to create a particular shape.

Often those proteins are profoundly different from any found in nature.

Protein designed to block flu infection works in mice.

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David Baker

Director of the Institute for Protein Design at University of Washington

Ian Wilson

Hansen Professor of Structural Biology at Scripps Research Institute.

University of Washington (UW)

Public research university in Seattle, Washington

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Synthetic Biology