Unraveling the Mystery of Protein Folding
 
Alzheimer's disease.
Cystic fibrosis.
Mad Cow disease.
An inherited form of emphysema.
Even many cancers.




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.