Mastodawn

I am so interested in whether knitting techniques that make 3D shapes can be used to help understand protein folding.

Knitting using continuous strings to make these complex shapes, and it has to do with things like tension and materials, and I see this can have an analogy with the primary, secondary, and tertiary structures.

can we use similar strategies to engineer protein shapes from sequence?

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Anna

@Rozzychan part of the problem here is that you would think that after all these centuries the materials science part of knitting would be well understood. It isn’t. There’s lots of practical knowledge both in the industry and with knitters themselves but there has been preciously little formal attention, so there’s not much there to translate over. Someone did a phd in it at Georgia Tech which was very fun (and a bit maligned in some knitting circles because “we knew all that”).