Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. Moreover, protein folding doesn’t happen in isolation.

Repeat proteins, defined by sequential arrays of short structural motifs, offer an intriguing departure from the folding behaviour of conventional globular proteins. Their modular architecture enables ...

In order to fulfil their many functions, proteins must be folded into the correct shape. Researchers at the University of Basel have now discovered tiny “folding factories” in cells that enable ...

But what technologies would one put on a wish list for the coming decades for chemistry and biology? I for one would like ...

While many businesses continue to seek AI’s killer app, biochemists have already found it. That application is protein folding. This week marks the five-year anniversary of the debut of Alpha Fold 2, ...