• Question: What do your proteins help with?

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      Asked by pyromaniac to Nikki, Harriet on 10 Mar 2016.
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        Nikki D'Arcy answered on 10 Mar 2016:

        Hi

        I work with antibiotics which in this case are chemicals not proteins. Antibiotics kill r stop bacteria growing. There are some types of polypeptide antibiotics which are still not proteins but are similar

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        Harriet Reid answered on 10 Mar 2016:

        Hi,
        The proteins we make self assemble to build things, but at the nanoscale ( so really tiny). I make 100 nanometer (you could fit 200 across the width of your hair) cages, we fill them with drugs to treat diseases like cancer.

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