SCIENCE AND ART ARE AWESOME STANDING ALONE BUT COOL THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU COMBINE THEM! researchers at MIT have developed a system for converting the molecular structures of proteins, the basic building blocks of all living beings, into audible sound that resembles musical passages. Then, reversing the process, they can introduce some variations into the music and convert it back into new proteins never before seen!

Proteins make up the structural material of skin, bone, and muscle, but are also enzymes, signaling chemicals, molecular switches, and a host of other functional materials that make up the machinery of all living things. But their structures, including the way they fold themselves into the shapes that often determine their functions, are exceedingly complicated.

By translating that language into a different form that humans are particularly well-attuned to WE CAN GET A CLOSER LOOK ON HOW PROTEINS ACTUALLY WORK!