Tag: Drug Design

Breast-Feeding May Protect Some Women Against Breast Cancer

  The Guardian Breast-Feeding May Protect Some Women Against BreastCancer Health.com ‎- “There are various explanations why breast-feeding seems to preventbreast cancer,” Gonzalez-Jimenez said. “The most probable of these are … read all at http://news.health.com/2013/08/15/breast-feeding-may-protect-some-women-against-breast-cancer/ By Kathleen Doheny HealthDay Reporter  

Physicists Discover Theoretical Possibility of Large, Hollow Magnetic Cage Molecules

Illustration depicts a Mn24C18 cluster carrying a magnetic moment of 70 Bohr magnetons. (Credit: Image courtesy of Menghao Wu, Ph.D./VCU.) Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have discovered, in theory, the possibility of creating large, hollow magnetic cage molecules that could one day be used in medicine as a drug delivery system to non-invasively treat tumors, and… Continue reading Physicists Discover Theoretical Possibility of Large, Hollow Magnetic Cage Molecules

Even bacteria use social networks

  This model shows the role of vesicles, vesicle chains and membrane tubes in M. xanthus biofilms. The scientists believe these connections help cells exchange signals and material. Image: Auer laboratory Using several imaging techniques, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists found that a common soil bacterium stays connected by a network of chain-like membranes. They… Continue reading Even bacteria use social networks