• Question: Hey, just wondering do you enjoy sticking protein toxins together

    Asked by natashadarkholme to Tom on 18 Mar 2013.
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      Tom Branson answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      Yeah I really like the idea of building structures on the nanoscale. By using the proteins as building blocks we can make balls, strings, 3D networks and other more complicated structures. This gives us the same options then as we do with bricks that can make houses, bridges and factories in our world.

      So we can hopefully build capsules as nanofactories, drug delivery vehicles, and larger nanoarchitecture (this is my favourite word at the moment!). When I say larger, it is still very small. 1 nanometre is a millionth of a millimetre.

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