One of the leading researchers in the field of protein folding is David Baker of the University of Washington, in Seattle. 西雅图华盛顿大学的David Baker是蛋白质折叠领域研究者的领军人物之一。 For the past 20 years he and hi

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Science and technology 科技 Molecular Biology: Folding Stuff 分子生物学:折叠 Shape determines a protein's function. Determining that shape, though, is tricky. 蛋白质的结构决定功能,而结构的形成却很难。 ABOUT 120,000 ty

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Science and technology 科学技术 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease 克雅氏病 Breaking down the barrier 攻破屏障 A glimmer of hope for a drug that treats disease caused by prions 药物治疗朊病毒感染疾病的一线希望 THE epidemic of mad-c

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A killer in close up 杀手在敲门 You can do a lot of damage with just seven genes 七个基因,祸害无穷 EBOLA is a simple virus, but also a subtle one. The stringy looking particles consist of a genome wrapped up in two layers of protein. T

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Proteins are what you get when you string amino acids together, and we need a lot of them. 你把氨基酸串在一起,就得到了蛋白质。我们需要大量的蛋白质。 No one really knows, but there may be as many as a million types of pro

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So ovarian cancer is one of those cancers that most people don't know about, 卵巢癌是大多数人所不了解的癌症之一, or at least don't pay that much attention to. 或者至少说没有怎么注意。 But yet, it's the fifth leading cau

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