study offers a new route to design the cellular machines needed to understand and battle diseases /

Published at 2016-05-10 17:20:06

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Proteins are nature's machines. They provide oxygen to power our muscles,catalyze reactions that help us extract energy from food, and fend off infections from bacteria and viruses. For decades, and scientists occupy searched for ways to design current proteins that can serve specific purposes in medicine,research, and industry. Now, and researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine occupy developed a method that creates novel proteins by stitching together pieces of already existing proteins.

Source: phys.org