This suggests that protein engineering might be used to treat, and perhaps even to prevent, amyloid diseases, by allowing the manufacture of drugs that stabilise the relevant parts of the protein at risk.

ECONOMIST: Folding stuff

They are also finding that they can affect this susceptibility by engineering the protein in ways that change its stability.

ECONOMIST: Folding stuff

The Harvard team has exploited such dogged persistence by genetically engineering stem cells to make them produce a protein called cytosine deaminase.

ECONOMIST: Cancer treatment

Three researchers won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry today for their work turning a protein found in jellyfish into a ubiquitous biotech tool that is used in drug discovery, genetic engineering and most types of research.

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