Viruses don’t always kill their microbial hosts. In many cases, they develop a mutually beneficial relationship: the virus establishes itself inside the microbe and, in return, grants its host with immunity against attack by similar viruses. Understanding this relationship is beneficial not only for medical research and practical applications but also in marine biology, says…
Computer Simulations Identify Chemical Key to Diabetes Drug Alternatives
Jeremy Smith, Governor’s Chair for Molecular Biophysics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and director of the Center for Molecular Biophysics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has worked with a research team from the UT Health Science Center to discover a chemical compound that could lower sugar levels as effectively as the diabetes drug metformin…