Folding fact of the day

[TT120]

Heres an interesting little tidbit I ran across:

PROTEIN FOLDING AND NANOTECHNOLOGY: Building man made machines on the nanoscale
In addition to biomedical applications, learning about how proteins fold will also teach us how to design our own protein-sized "nanomachines" to do similar tasks. Of course, before nanomachines can carry out any activity, they must also be assembled.

Anybody remember Wesley Crusher's Nanites?

[JetMech]

Roger that. That's one of many things that will happen way before the 25th century.