I apologize in advance for the long post but this article gnawed at me ever since I read it because the headline sounds too good to be true. I tried reading on the vortex fluidic device (VFD) but its a difficult read (unless youre a Chemist or an Engineer perhaps xD). From what I understood, its essentially a machine that spins liquid into a very thin film to speed up a chemical reaction. You get a similar vortex when you mix powdered drinks like Tang in a glass of water. Its just that this process is more controlled. I eventually found a freely available preview page from the original paper published (that included Weiss, who also co-authored the first Chemical Biology textbook as Mao pointed out). Being a preview page I only got a glimpse of the paper but I think this summarizes what they did: We imagined applying the VFD with a similar range of input energies to the refolding of proteins... Since the folding of a protein to its native state is just a thermodynamic process, I think they just made the the folding more favorable :D yaaaay!
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:12:25 +0000
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