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On Prions and Protein Design

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The study of RNA tumor viruses revealed reverse transcriptase , an enzyme integral in studying RNA biology. Proteins designed by David Baker’s laboratory, 2003-2023. Crucially, this process requires neither DNA nor RNA; proteins alone influence other proteins to change shape.

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Levers for Biological Progress

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Scientists are already building a model that can, for example, look at which RNA molecules are expressed in a cell at t=0 and predict how those molecules will change at t=1. Even more fundamentally, a virtual cell is a way to encapsulate the current extent of our biological knowledge. Even the humble E.

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