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Deborah Leckband was among the first group of scientists elected Fellows of the American Chemical Society. The ACS Fellows Program recognizes members of the American Chemical Society "for outstanding achievements in and contributions to Science, the Profession, and the Society". Klaus Schulten and collaborators think that a toxic molecule, superoxide, may play a pivotal role in birds' ability to see Earth's magnetic fields. They published their discovery in Biophysical Journal. UIUC News Bureau article. Roman Boulatov's research group is exploring the breaking points of bonds within molecules. They have come to the conclusion that stretching bonds does not necessarily cause them to break more quickly. UIUC News Bureau article. The unusual mechanism for the breakup of a non-activated carbon-carbon bond in a single step by a bacterial enzyme is elucidated in a recent Nature article by Wilfred van der Donk and colleagues. UIUC News Bureau article, C&EN article. Klaus Schulten and Thanh Troung lead teams of researchers using supercomputers to study how antiviral medications interact with the swine flu (A/H1N1) virus proteins and how the viruses develop resistance to these drugs. Texas Advanced Computing Center article.
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