What is "conformational"

Usage examples of "conformational".

They should be working on uploading and solving the nanoassembly conformational problem instead.

And if one of those, an ur-protein that was some ancient relative of PrPi, could induce a conformational change and a minor chemical change in other proteins, so that they became exact copies of itself, we would have reproduction.

She was leaning over the scanning probe microscope, which showed an image of a cell mitochondrion and the two conformational states of its inner membrane.

I am blessed with a powerful short-term memory, and years of studying the conformational properties of protein molecules had taught me to hold within my mind complex three-dimensional structures.