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Computer Program Points the Way to New Candidate Agents

Tracking down new active agents for cancer or malaria treatment could soon become easier - thanks to a computer program with which researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund aim to facilitate the search for suitable pharmaceutical substances.

27 Jul 2009

MCSG Deposit Their 1,000th Protein Structure into Protein Data Bank

For nearly a decade, researchers at the Midwest Center for Structural Genomics (MCSG), an international consortium led by Andrzej Joachimiak at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, have been patiently cracking the genetic code of important proteins.

From Argonne National Laboratory 27 Jul 2009

Nanodiamond-Insulin Clusters Hold Promise for Wound-Healing Applications

Bacterial infection is a major health threat to patients with severe burns and other kinds of serious wounds such as traumatic bone fractures. Recent studies have identified an important new weapon for fighting infection...

27 Jul 2009

Researchers Combine Two Nanoparticles in One Tiny Package

Nanoparticles are being developed to perform a wide range of medical uses - imaging tumors, carrying drugs, delivering pulses of heat. Rather than settling for just one of these, researchers at the University of Washington have combined two nanoparticles in one tiny package.

27 Jul 2009