ID’ing Molecules from the Briny Deep
ABERDEEN, UK, and ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug. 11, 2010 — In a pioneering research project, scientists at IBM and the University of Aberdeen have collaborated to “see” the structure of a marine compound from the deepest place on the Earth using an atomic force microscope (AFM). The results of the project open up new possibilities in biological research, which could lead to the faster development of new medicines. The findings were reported in the online August 1 issue of the journal Nature Chemistry. Last year, scientists from the u...