Peter Wolynes, Nicholas Schafer and Bobby Kim, Rice University (IMAGE)

Rice University

Peter Wolynes, Nicholas Schafer and Bobby Kim, Rice University

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Rice University researchers, from left, Peter Wolynes, Nicholas Schafer and Bobby Kim have applied Wolynes' groundbreaking energy landscape theory to predict how transmembrane proteins in cells are likely to fold. The work could give new tools to scientists who study proteins implicated in diseases.

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Jeff Fitlow/Rice University

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