Initial Therapeutics co-founders (from L-R) Jamie Cate, Brian Paegel and Kevan Shokat
'Undruggable is only at a given point in time': Prominent California scientists launch Initial Therapeutics with $75M
Proteins are the epitome of organized chaos — a jumble of molecular spirals, sheets and links collapsing on top of each other. But they come together in such a way that each protein can precisely carry out its job, whether it’s marking foreign invaders or digesting food.
Before the chaos, however, proteins are briefly linear — a simple string of amino acids that has yet to find its shape or function.
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