Improved Modeling Toobers! In our effort to provide you with better products, our new Modeling Toobers are slightly smaller in diameter and a little less dense. As a result they will be easier to fold into protein shapes and hold their protein shape longer. Most creases will disappear, if the Toobers are straightened out within a few hours. The new Toobers are available in bright blue.
Modeling
Toobers introduce your students to protein folding.
Flexible Modeling Toobers (made of foam-covered wire) allow students to create their own protein structures while exploring basic protein-folding principles. Toobers are 4’ long and now come only in blue. Students will learn:
How hydrophilic/hydrophobic sidechains influence a protein’s
structure
How structure is a critical factor in many proteins’
function
Students can also create Toober beta sheets and alpha helixes.