by Edward Snell | Jan 20, 2022 | Snell-lab
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in 198 million reported infections and more than 4 million deaths as of July 2021 (covid19.who.int). Research to identify effective therapies for COVID-19 includes: (1) designing a vaccine as future protection; (2) de novo drug...
by Edward Snell | Jan 20, 2022 | Snell-lab
Many biological systems across scales of size and complexity exhibit a time-varying complex network structure that emerges and self-organizes as a result of interactions with the environment. We describe these in a publication entitled “Biological Networks...
by Edward Snell | Jan 20, 2022 | Snell-lab
In 2005 we looked at the status of growing crystals in space, four years after the final flight of the Space Shuttle Orbiter, and five years before the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. Since then, there have been developments in access to...
by Edward Snell | Nov 8, 2021 | HWI News
Our team at the Advanced Photon Source have helped Pfizer create a COVID-19 treatment. The new drug candidate, Paxlovid, significantly reduced hospitalization and death in adult patients, according to Pfizer, and will be submitted for an emergency use authorization in...
by Edward Snell | Nov 1, 2021 | HWI News, Snell-lab
Studying radiation damage in biological systems – New tools and new knowledge X-ray-based techniques are a powerful tool in structural biology but the radiation-induced chemistry that results can be detrimental and may mask an accurate structural understanding....
