A paper published in Polymers has investigated using nanoparticles to extend the shelf-life of strawberries. The research has been contributed to by scientists from Al-Azar University in Egypt and Taif University in Saudi Arabia.
JEDDAH: The winners’ ceremony for the 13th Makkah Excellence Award took place on Wednesday, with recipients honored by Gov. Prince Khalid Al-Faisal. The awards were announced earlier in February during the sixth session of the Makkah Cultural Forum, which was held under the theme of “How to be a role model in the digital world.” General supervisor of the Makkah Excellence
RIYADH: The Saudi Sports for All Federation has kicked off a new initiative with the Saudi Universities Sports Federation to promote physical activity at tertiary institutions across the Kingdom. The initiative, known as the University Sports Group Program, started in February and will take place until August this year. It seeks to establish 120 new sports groups and support
The spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a pandemic due to the high transmission and mortality rate of this virus. The world health and economic sectors have been severely affected by this deadly virus, exacerbated by the lack of sufficient efficient vaccines. The design of effective drug candidates and their rapid development is necessary to combat this virus. In this study, we selected 23 antimicrobial peptides from the literature and predicted their structure using PEP-FOLD 3.5. In addition, we docked them to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein receptor-binding domain (RBD) to study their capability to inhibit the RBD, which plays a significant role in virus binding, fusion and entry into the host cell. We used several docking programs including HDOCK, HPEPDOCK, ClusPro, and HawkDock to calculate the binding energy of the protein-peptide complexes. We identified four peptides with high binding free energy and docking scores. The docking results
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