UMass Amherst Biochemists Light Up Correctly Folded Proteins
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 3:43 am
Biochemists Lila Gierasch and Beena Krishnan at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have found a way to slip a fluorescent marker into one of a cell’s molecular machines so it lights up when it has formed the proper shape to carry out the cell’s “work orders.”
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