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Welcome to the podcast of the Life Scientific.

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Professor Jane Clark has had a fascinating double career.

Having been a science teacher for many years, she didn't start her research career until

she was 40.

Today she's a world-leaning expert in molecular biophysics and in particular how protein

molecules fold up into elaborate three-dimensional structures.

There are millions of proteins inside every single cell in our body and they carry out most

of the functions necessary for life, so it's very important that we understand them.

However, simply knowing their chemical composition isn't enough, we also need to understand

their shape because that's what dictates how they work.

For decades how proteins fold in order to function has been one of the fundamental questions

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