
Episode 121: Therac-25
Well There‘s Your Problem
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Do You Know What Folding Proteins Are?
When cells divide, there's potential for errors to occur. Other than misfolding prions, what you can do also that fucks up is you can just go, oh, just do these proteins. Fold them right, but like in the wrong order, the wrong place. You know, fold too many of them, too few of them. Proteins folding like in themselves when that goes wrong in a different way, that's some should I'm really scared of. That was sort of as far as when we're looking into the way that proteins folded in mutations in different kinds of cancer. And so the folding at home thing was basically sort of running multiple sequences of these things
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