A Protein Magic Trick: Molecular Action at a Distance?

A typical human cell houses about one billion proteins — the workhorses that do the tens of millions of tasks that need to happen in every cell, every second of the day. Protein structure was a problem that physicists solved for biologists ages ago — but how proteins actually function is a mechanics problem that still vexes scientists. Enjoy dinner and drinks as KITP biophysicist Le Yan explains his new ideas about how these nanoscopic machines work their molecular magic.