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Chemistry World September 29, 2010 Hayley Birch	Protein folding: knotted or not A new study may help scientists unravel the complex problem of protein folding. The study suggests knotted proteins, which present a particular challenge to folding experts, could be untied with a couple of well-targeted tugs.
Science News February 22, 2003 Ivars Peterson	The Tangled Task of Distinguishing Knots Unlike a knotted piece of rope, a mathematical knot has no free ends. In this context, a knot is a one-dimensional curve that winds through itself in three-dimensional space, finally catching its tail to form a closed loop.
Science News October 31, 2008 Julie Rehmeyer	Unknotting Knot Theory New techniques are beginning to unravel the mysteries of knots, revealing a great mathematical superstructure in the process
Science News October 13, 2007 Julie J. Rehmeyer	Math Trek: A Tangled Tale A jostled string forms knots quickly and there is an entire branch of mathematics devoted to understanding the formation of these knots.
Bio-IT World June 12, 2002 Mark D. Uehling	Putting Proteins in Their Place Will a 'periodic table' of proteins help classify the ungainly beasts?
Chemistry World February 3, 2013 Andy Extance	Enzyme draws nanopore protein sequencing nearer US scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have made a key step towards nanopore protein sequencing, thanks to an 'unfoldase' enzyme. Mark Akeson's team exploited this enzyme to unravel proteins and pull them through nanopores.
Reactive Reports Issue 51 David Bradley	Protein Crystals Trapped Researchers have developed a new technique for crystallizing proteins, which could open up a whole range of materials to this powerful analytical technique.
Chemistry World October 27, 2014 Tim Wogan	Folding rules used to build unnatural proteins Scientists in the UK and US have designed and synthesized unnatural protein structures, using theoretical calculations to explore the factors affecting protein folding and stability.
Prepared Foods February 2008 Sharon Book	Article: Protein Ingredients for Health and Texture A variety of soy, dairy and egg proteins are available for the food formulator to obtain the desired texture in a food or beverage.
Chemistry World August 2, 2012 Philip Ball	Polymer replacement for the hydration shell The sheath of water molecules, called a hydration shell, that gives protein molecules the flexibility to do their catalytic job can be replaced by polymers, according to Adam Perriman of the University of Bristol and his coworkers.
Bio-IT World June 12, 2002 Karen Hopkin	Computational Biologists Join the Fold CASP5 competitors compare the best algorithms for modeling the 3-D structure of proteins -- an exercise that could lead to new insights into the pathogenesis and treatment of disease.
Technology Research News September 24, 2003 Kimberly Patch	Heated plastic holds proteins One important task for biochips is sorting proteins, but it's tricky business getting protein molecules to be where you want them and stay away from where you don't. A tiny, plastic-coated hot plate allows scientists to trap and release proteins on command.
Bio-IT World February 11, 2005 Kevin Davies	In Living Color Researchers have developed a palette of fluorescent proteins to complement the green fluorescent protein (GFP), a stable of cell biology for a decade.
Science News September 24, 2005 Ivars Peterson	Tying Down a Random Walk If you've forgotten how to form a four-in-hand, take a lesson from retired mechanical engineer Seth Goldstein's necktie-maven "Why Knot" robot, now on display at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Or, view an on-line clip.
Science News March 18, 2006 Ivars Peterson	Winning with a Winding Random Walk For his Intel Science Talent Search math project, Yi Sun worked out the expected number of steps it takes a walker on a two-dimensional grid to encircle a given point. He also derived an explicit (very complicated) formula for the expected value of the winding number after n steps.
Chemistry World August 24, 2006 Jessica Ebert	Alzheimer's Researchers Tackle Waste Disposal The memory of mice with Alzheimer's-like symptoms is improved by inoculating the mice with an enzyme involved in protein degradation, report US researchers. The work could lead to new therapies for patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Chemistry World December 12, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Zwitterion approach to stabilizing drug proteins Researchers in the US have discovered a new way to stabilize and protect protein molecules without affecting the protein's biological activity.
Chemistry World June 1, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Protein architecture with atomic precision Researchers have made a key breakthrough in designing and building geometrically defined nanostructures from proteins with unprecedented accuracy.
Chemistry World August 24, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	'Chemical nose' sensor sniffs blood protein profile US scientists have developed a sensor system for profiling the protein content of human blood serum without needing individual receptors for each separate protein.
Chemistry World December 21, 2006 Henry Nicholls	Silent SNPs Serve up a Structural Surprise The sequence of amino acids no longer dictates the structure and function of a protein according to a surprising new paper.
Chemistry World November 8, 2012 Laura Howes	Self-tying trefoil knot If knotting up molecules is so difficult why not take a tip from nature and get the molecules to do the work for you? This is what Cambridge University researchers found when one of their molecules did indeed tie itself in knots.
Chemistry World August 26, 2008 Fred Campbell	High-throughput protein microarrays on the way A new method to rapidly generate protein microarrays has been developed by UK researchers at the University of Manchester.
Chemistry World November 13, 2014 Katrina Kramer	Persuading proteins to form porous polyhedra Researchers in the US have designed a hollow cube out of naturally occurring proteins, something that was previously only possible with DNA.
Chemistry World May 5, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Don't FRET over broken polymers Fluorescent proteins could one day help identify microscopic cracks and damage in polymer materials, allowing them to be monitored to prevent failure in load-bearing applications such as in aerospace and biomedical devices.
Technology Research News March 24, 2004	DNA has nano building in hand Researchers from Ludwig Maximilians University in Germany have built a simple molecular machine from DNA that can bind to and release single molecules of a specific type of protein.
Chemistry World November 2006 Philip Ball	Opinion: The Crucible Here are some of the latest instalments in the ongoing story of how protein misfolding causes neurodegenerative diseases -- a story that is not solely about developing clinical treatments or preventative medicines, but which goes to the heart of proteins' role as the stuff of life.
Chemistry World June 14, 2011	A New Spin on Protein NMR A new technique will allow researchers to study protein structure in greater detail using NMR.
Chemistry World April 28, 2011 Laura Howes	Polymer collapses in a flash Researchers in the Netherlands have created a polymer that folds up like a protein on exposure to light.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Michele Solis	Right Before Your Eyes Coupling protein sequence to function, thousands of variants at a time.
Chemistry World April 29, 2013 Caryl Richards	Protein origami sets scene for designer structures A world first in the art of protein origami has been attained with a novel method of folding a polypeptide chain into a three-dimensional tetrahedron.
Chemistry World April 2009 Philip Ball	Column: The crucible Unwinding protein fibrils could give a glimpse of how peptides survived on early Earth
Chemistry World March 29, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Gene gels pump out proteins Gels made with genes incorporated into the structure could soon make protein production cheaper and easier, according to researchers in the US.
Chemistry World November 27, 2013 Jennifer Newton	A cytochrome from scratch Artificial proteins could be closer to participating in natural biochemical pathways after researchers show that bacteria will process amino acid sequences entirely unrelated to any natural protein to produce a fully functioning cytochrome.
Chemistry World January 19, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Modified protein binders give shortcut to drugs The method, which involves attaching polypeptides to the binders, could help reduce the work required to develop protein binders into safer drugs.
Reactive Reports September 2005 David Bradley	When Good Turns Bad Prions, the protein-like pathogens at the heart of the fatal brain disorder CJD, so-called mad cow disease, and related diseases can rapidly "remodel" good proteins into bad, according to US scientists, who have demonstrated this for the first time in living cells.
Chemistry World June 3, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Chemistry Nobel laureate Irwin Rose dies aged 88 Rose, along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, received the prize for discovering how cells break down and dispose of unwanted proteins.
Chemistry World May 26, 2011 Russell Johnson	Hunting elusive green fluorescent proteins After a 40 year hunt, scientists have tracked down the genes responsible for fluorescent proteins in Obelia medusa - a type of jellyfish. Knowledge of these genes could lead to new fluorescent protein tags for use in cell biology.
Bio-IT World October 10, 2003 Jeffrey Skolnick	Protein Structure Prediction in Drug Discovery Indications are that structure prediction can assist in the automated assignment of proteins to known pathways.
Chemistry World September 17, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Targeted TB treatment Researchers in the US have discovered that a class of small molecules can selectively disable a key protein complex in the tuberculosis bacterium and kill the organism
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2003 Ineke Malsch	Protein research calls for advanced instruments The science of protein interactions is becoming a major tool in biomedical and drug development research. Carrying out and advancing such studies more efficiently and effectively, however, will require new, cutting-edge instrumentation.
AskMen.com August 6, 2008	AM Theme: Protein With so many protein shakes, bars and other supplements available, choosing the right product can be difficult. Here are a few tips.
Chemistry World February 13, 2014 Philip Ball	Ice core to antifreeze protein's inner workings The antifreeze protein that protects the winter flounder from sub-zero temperatures has been found to have an odd structure.
Chemistry World April 8, 2010 Simon Hadlington	Arsenic anticancer target revealed Researchers from China and France believe they have uncovered the molecular mechanism by which arsenic trioxide kills certain cancer cells.
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Chemistry World January 21, 2011 David Barden	Close encounter makes modifying proteins easy Chemists in the US have now developed a powerful strategy for selectively modifying the side-chains of proteins, which they hope will enable the creation of new tools to investigate protein interactions involved in human diseases.
Chemistry World October 8, 2008 Sarah Houlton	Artificial protein chemistry licensed to industry UK researchers are licensing to industry their method of making artificial proteins by chemically modifying individual amino acid structures.
Chemistry World July 6, 2007 Michael Gross	Predicting How Proteins Fold Researchers in Italy and the UK have now developed a computational approach that can simulate the folding of membrane proteins in atomic detail.
Chemistry World February 24, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Botox 'bodyguard' gives protein protection Researchers have discovered how one of the most potent toxins known to man can survive in the human stomach and digestive tract.
Prepared Foods August 14, 2006 Marcia A. Wade	Protein Proposals American adults should get 10% to 35% of their calories from protein. Here are a few ways they can do that.
Chemistry World February 3, 2010 Simon Hadlington	New 'hook' for reversibly binding molecules to proteins UK chemists have found a simple new 'hook' that allows molecules to be attached to proteins and later removed, something that is currently difficult to achieve.