The screen turned up some proteins that the Penn team had explored before but also a new one, a protein called BAG3, known as a chaperone protein, which under normal physiological conditions acts to promote cell survival. (sciencedaily.com)
«Hopefully it will be able to adapt to its environment, and then just sit there and function just as a normal valve functions under normal physiological conditions.» (news.bbc.co.uk)
Now investigators at the University of Dortmund in Germany have figured out how to unlink them under normal physiological conditions, potentially offering a controllable way to construct complicated nanostructures or devices that interact with the body. (scientificamerican.com)