It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a line of melody written in a canon form & so designed by Nature to fold… — Christian B. Anfinsen Copy Share Image
“A gene," Beadle wrote in 1945, "can be visualized as directing the final configuration of a protein molecule." This was the "action of the gene" that a generation of biologists had been trying to comprehend: a gene "acts" by encoding… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
