E' fatale che appena scrivo che il fullerene non serve a una cippa trovano subito un'applicazione. E non una qualsiasi, ma di moda assai. Sembra che aiuti nel difendersi dall'antrace.
Rice Chemistry Professor Lon Wilson decided to create a buckyball-vancomycin conjugate following years of work developing biochemical targeting mechanisms for buckyballs, spherical cages containing 60 carbon molecules. By linking antibodies to a buckyball with anticancer drugs attached to it, Wilson and two of his graduate students, Tatiana Zakharian and Jared Ashcroft, are creating targeted compounds that will bind only with certain cells, like those found in melanoma tumors, for example. Researchers use buckyballs to reinvent 'antibiotic of last resort' [Science Blog]
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