Drug Discovery - The Most Immediate Application

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Saya yer o, you think the most immediate application of this is drug discovery. A lot of diseases are currently thought to be to do with proteins that miss fould so sometimes fold in the wrong way instead of the normal healthy way. So not only can it give you back the threely structure, it can also tell you which bits are going to kind of be unfolded unless they interact with something. And some of those regions are implicated in disease.

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