'Cool' new method for probing how molecules fold
Thursday, December 18, 2014 - 17:30
in Physics & Chemistry
A powerful new system for studying how proteins and other biological molecules form and lose their natural folded structures has been developed by scientists. Using the new system, researchers can force a sample of molecules to unfold and refold by boosting and then dropping the temperature, so quickly that even some of the fastest molecular folding events can be tracked.