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Alzheimer's disease.
Cystic fibrosis.
Mad Cow disease.
An inherited form of emphysema.
Even many cancers.
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Recent
discoveries show that all these apparently unrelated diseases result from
protein folding gone wrong. As though that weren't enough, many of the unexpected
difficulties biotechnology companies encounter when trying to produce human
proteins in bacteria also result from something amiss when proteins fold.
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