As the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak causes worldwide concern, Purdue University scientists say control measures are an absolute necessity and that medical treatments for similar disease are on the horizon. They are developing a drug to fight coronavirus. The drug works by blocking a key enzyme of the virus, preventing it from replicating.

AnalySwift LLC, a Purdue University-affiliated commercial software provider, has received a $125,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from NASA. The STTR award will help the company further develop its SwiftComp software, technology that provides efficient, high-fidelity modeling of deployable structures made of high-strain composites.

It has been suggested that the expansion in palm oil production is driven by biofuel production in U.S. but a Purdue University study shows that only a scant fraction of the deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia can be pinned on U.S. biofuel production and policy.

Researchers are studying ways to prevent a polymer’s “mechanical breathing,” an effect that causes the layers of a smart window to delaminate.

Purdue University researchers are aiming to stump drug counterfeiters with an edible “security tag” embedded into medicine. To imitate the drug, a counterfeiter would have to uncrack a complicated puzzle of patterns not fully visible to the naked eye.

Scientists at Purdue University have created the world’s fastest-spinning human-made object and the most sensitive torque detector by suspending a nanoparticle in a vacuum with a laser, and then using a second laser to test its torque sensitivity. The object revolves at 300 billion revolutions per minute. Or, put another way, half a million times faster than a dentist’s drill.

Purdue University researchers have designed a novel approach to use deep learning to better understand how proteins interact in the body.

Chongli Yuan, a Purdue University chemical engineering professor, is a leader of Purdue’s section of a multidisciplinary team studying the possibility of building synthetic neuron cells as a possible solution to the replacement of damaged or dead neurons.

Noticing the protein’s brown color, Iskander Ibrahim and Sujith Puthiyaveetil (right) determined that CSK contains an iron-sulfur cluster that senses electron transport during photosynthesis. The CSK protein plays a key role in balancing light energy conversion by cyanobacteria and chloroplasts.

A Purdue University study may hold the key to accurately and consistently producing microbubbles that could be used for cleaning, as well as foams used in foods, rapid DNA and protein assessments, destroying dangerous bacteria and more.

A simple new method from Purdue University scientists could help cut down the amount of food waste – and provide another renewable source of clean energy.

W. Andy Tao, a Purdue University professor of biochemistry, and colleagues have developed a method to implant a chemical label that acts like a GPS tracker into live salmonella bacteria. Once inside the bacteria, the probe can be captured at any given time, showing in real time the proteins interacting with the bacteria.