Protein folding has been called one of the great unsolved mysteries of molecular biology, a process too complex and elusive to predict with accuracy. Recently, however, a team led by HHMI investigator David Baker at the University of Washington School of Medicine has begun making predictions that one admiring expert compares to a string of home runs. continued...

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Reprinted from the HHMI Bulletin, July 2001, pages 20-23.
©2001 Howard Hughes Medical Institute