At the Centre for Programmable Biological Matter, we are interested in understanding, designing and building natural and artificial bionanomachines.
Bionanomachines are fascinating nanoscale machines made from biological molecules, typically proteins, lipids, RNA and DNA. In nature they carry out an amazing array of tasks, from copying our DNA to converting light into energy.
We use a mixture of biochemical, structural and computational techniques plus the most important ingredient: imagination.
Currently we are particularly interested in the natural machine DNA gyrase both because of its fascinating and intricate mechanism but also because it is an important target for development of new antibacterial drugs.
We are also building artificial structures from proteins and DNA with the aim of developing Programmable Biological Matter. This describes artificial nanoscale biological material which can be programmed to move on demand. This will be useful for new materials and particularly medical use for example in effective vaccines and smart drug delivery systems which may one day be used as effective disease treatments in particular for age-associated diseases.
Funded by The Leverhulme Trust and Academy of Medical Sciences.
Company Details
- Employees
- 1
- Founded
- -
- Address
- Durham University, Durham,united Kingdom
- Industry
- Nanotechnology Research
- NAICS
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Research and Development in Nanotechnology
- Website
- http://www.heddlelab.org/
- HQ
- Durham
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Centre For Programmable Biological Matter's website is http://www.heddlelab.org/
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Centre For Programmable Biological Matter's top competitors are
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Centre For Programmable Biological Matter's categories are Nanotechnology Research
Centre For Programmable Biological Matter's founding year is 2023
