University of Pennsylvania chemistry professor Jeffery Saven and his group are part of a team that has become the first to use computational methods to create the first custom-designed protein crystal. Protein design is a technique that is increasingly valuable to a variety of fields, from biochemistry to therapeutics to materials engineering. The team's research was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
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