{description}Recent advances made at Stanford University’s Departments of Chemistry and Chemical and Systems Biology will now allow scientists to control the function of a protein more rapidly through the administration of small molecules. In a paper published in the September 8th issue of Cell, Dr. Thomas Wandless and his team describe a revolutionary technique that allows researchers to control the stability of specific proteins in mammalian cells. This breakthrough has the potential to make the study of proteins dramatically better, faster, and more efficient. {/description}