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<p>Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions investigated a novel strategy to neutralize human noroviruses. They tested the ability of tiny antibodies produced by llamas, called nanobodies, to effectively neutralize human norovirus infection in the lab. The unexpected findings reveal that nanobodies could be developed as a therapeutic agent against human norovirus.</p>
The proteins upon which life depends share an attribute with paper airplanes: Unless folded properly, they just won t fly. But researchers have been puzzled by how the long, linear proteins cranked out by the ribosome factories in a cell are folded into the shapes they must assume to perform their function.
Similar to a giraffe reaching upward for leaves on a tall tree, causing carbon nanotubes to stretch for food as they grow may result in a long-sought revolution.
Weak bonds a strength in making borophene. Theory shows potential to synthesize material on an insulator. Boris Jacobson, a materials theorist at Rice University George R. Brown School of Engineering, and his team have come up with a way to synthesize bo