Chemical Nanoengineering: Designing Drugs Controlled by Light

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June 18, 2013 — The scientific cooperation between chemists, biotechnologists and physicists from various Catalan institutes, headed by Pau Gorostiza, from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), and Ernest Giralt, from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), has led to a breakthrough that will favor the development of light-regulated therapeutic molecules.
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Researchers at IRB Barcelona and IBEC design the first peptides regulated by light to modulate biological processes. (Credit: Copyright Laura Nevola)

SOURCE: Science Daily
 
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