The body’s many proteins begin their lives as long strands of amino acids before folding up into the many tangles and ribbons that make them unique. The process makes for striking imagery. But, until now, it has lacked a soundtrack.
Wedding the fields of biology and music, researchers in the US and UK have come up with a way to make folding proteins sing. And if it catches on, scientists might one day be able to spot the signs of disease by listening for errant voices in a microscopic choir.
