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Forever in your prime

Anything I find interesting about how to slow, prevent, and reverse aging.

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Proteomics

Fundamental Insight
Basically, they're figuring out that is hard. Due to the many different that can be created with the , and the many different ways in which those proteins can be used, we have our work cut out for us in mapping what these systems do. This can be further complicated by the fact proteins fold in a specific way to function, and a change in the environment where they are created can alter the way they fold, changing the structure of the final molecule, but without changing the genetic sequence used to create it, but still achieving a different final product. Thankfully computational power shows no signs of slowing it's growth, we're going to need it all.