The Protein Revolution
Publisher: New Scientist
About the Medicines of the Future
Combines fundamental science and medical applications
A Pocket Science title
Last year, seven of the ten best-selling medications in the world consisted of proteins. And now that programmes such as AlphaFold are using artificial intelligence to help design new proteins at lightning speed, the number of protein medicines will only increase. It may not be immediately apparent, but we are on the eve of a revolution in medicine.
In this book, science journalist Ruben Boot discusses in a lively and humorous way how proteins, as the ‘workhorses of the cell,’ perform a variety of tasks in our bodies. He also shows why they are so suitable to use as medication and what we can expect from the entirely new proteins that scientists are currently developing in laboratories. Will we soon have a protein therapy for every conceivable disease?
