Middle school students co-author research on enzyme for activating promising disease-fighters
Thursday, July 29, 2010 - 03:07
in Biology & Nature
Grown-ups aren't the only ones making exciting scientific discoveries these days. Two middle school students from Wisconsin joined a team of scientists who are reporting the first glimpse of the innermost structure of a key bacterial enzyme. It helps activate certain antibiotics and anti-cancer agents so that those substances do their job.