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.

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