Minimalist Biostructures Designed to Create Nanomaterials (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

Minimalist Biostructures Designed to Create Nanomaterials (1 of 2)

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With the new heptapeptides, researchers from the IBB-UAB demonstrate that only four different types of amino acids, distributed in a specific manner and combined always with another fifth type, are enough to obtain the complete code needed to form synthetic prion fibres.

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