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Cracking the mystery of how proteins found their shapes

Cracking the mystery of how proteins found their shapes
science8/10/2025

Discover how proteins fold, the role of amino acids, and the impact on protein engineering in groundbreaking research.

In 1959, the American biochemist Walter Kauzmann proposed a radical solution to the problem of protein structure. At the time, it was unclear how proteins, the workhorses of the cell, fold into their unique three-dimensional forms. Every protein is m... [5631 chars]