Drug Development

NASA Research Helps Map Protein Structures

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, September 28th, 1998

Research sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Microgravity Research Program at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, USA, is making significant contributions to scientists' understanding of the molecular structure of living things - a key to the development of new disease-fighting drugs.

Space- and ground-based studies conducted by NASA-sponsored scientists are providing a better understanding of protein structures and functions. Determining the structures of proteins - which allow living organisms to function - is essential to the future design of new, more effective drugs against diseases such as AIDS, heart disease,...

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