by University of Glasgow Credit: CC0 Public Domain An international team of scientists and pharmaceutical collaborators has made a breakthrough “bench to bedside” discovery, ten years in the making, which they hope will advance the future treatment of Alzheimer’s disease in patients. The research—conducted at the University of Glasgow and the biotechnology company Sosei-Heptares Ltd...
Hydrogen peroxide reacts with copper to produce hydroxyl radicals with strong antibacterial properties. However, this requires high copper concentrations because two copper atoms have to come close together, which occurs by chance. Now, scientists at Tokyo University of Science, Japan, engineered a long polymer with copper-containing side units that create regions with locally high copper...
