[decimon]

Caption: An electrostatic representation (red: negative; blue: positive; white: hydrophobic) created at the Ohio Supercomputer Center by Ohio State’s Chenglong Li, Ph.D., shows IL-6 in ribbon representation. The two larger yellow ellipses indicate the two binding "hot spots" between IL-6 and GP130, key to blocking a protein that plays a role in breast and prostate cancer.

Credit: Chenglong Li/OSU

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Caption: A simulation created at the Ohio Supercomputer Center by Ohio State’s Chenglong Li, Ph.D., illustrates MDL-A (ball-and-stick) binding with a section of GP130 (yellow ribbon). Li is using fragment-based drug design to block Interleukin-6, a small protein molecule that plays a role in breast and prostate cancer.

Credit: Chenglong Li/OSU

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[decimon]

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[gorush]

To think that there is a link between the breast and the prostate...if I were only slightly less couuth, I’d have a ribald joke here...but I’m above that. :{)

[rfp1234]

Now that’s a good use of supercomputers. If only the billions wasted in the climate-change-modeling-crap could be diverted to useful medical research...