Scientists from the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have discovered a new way to generate proteins. They found that a single organism, a virus that infects bacteria, called a bacteriophage, or phage, can produce 10 trillion varieties of a single protein via a single mechanism. This protein copying technique will give a new tool to drug researchers for "generating therapeutic enzymes and other medically important proteins to produce novel drugs." Read more...
Sources: Wai Lang Chu, DrugResearcher.com, September 19, 2005; and various web sites
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