Physicists of the University of Vienna together with
researchers from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
developed nano-machines which recreate principal activities of proteins. They
present the first versatile and modular example of a fully artificial
protein-mimetic model system, thanks to the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC), a
high performance computing infrastructure. These "bionic proteins"
could play an important role in innovating pharmaceutical research. The results
have now been published in the renowned journal "Physical Review
Letters".