Molecule Maker Lab News Today

University of Illinois researchers received NSF funding to acquire a fully automated polymer analysis instrument to be housed at the Beckman Institute.

Clinical testing is underway for a potentially groundbreaking new treatment for cystic fibrosis. Pioneered by scientists at Carle Illinois College of Medicine at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa in partnership with the spin-out biotechnology company, cystetic Medicines, this promising inhalable molecular prosthetic is intended to improve lung function in people with CF who cannot benefit from current therapies.

A combination of artificial intelligence (AI), “building-block” chemistry, and a molecule-producing machine could find the most suitable general reaction circumstances for manufacturing chemicals crucial to materials and biomedical research.

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Proteins are the molecular machines of all living cells and have been exploited for use in many applications, including therapeutics and industrial catalysts.