![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090508033617im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Caltech and UCSD Researchers Shed Light on How Proteins Find Their Shapes
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February 23, 2009
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Researchers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have brought together UCSD theoretical modeling and Caltech experimental data to show just how amino-acid chains might fold up into unique, 3-D functional proteins.
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Source California Institute of Technology
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