The 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry helps

The invention helps people to "freeze" molecules, thereby studying the structure and molecular biology processes that are participating have won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

This honor belongs to three scientists Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson.

All three European and American scientists have been honored for the creation of cryo-electron microscopy , a tool that allows us to see living objects at the molecular level. death.

This work is said to have extremely large applications, in many different areas. One of them is the "target" of how Zika virus works.

Last year's cold test electron microscopes helped scientists for the first time observe details of the external structure of zirus Zika below the molecular level, making it easier for them to develop resistant drugs. Viruses and vaccines to prevent dangerous diseases are threatening globally.

According to the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, theories of creating an electron microscope to capture molecular-level organisms have existed for a long time. But thanks to the research of this year's three Nobel Prize winners, the last technical barriers were broken in 2013, when a new type of electron microscope was put into use.

Cold-type electron microscopes work by rapidly freezing viral molecules. The scientists then fired a beam of high-energy electrons into the specimen to create tens of thousands of images under an electron microscope.

Combining it all together, the scientists created a unique Zika virus image with a high resolution of its three-dimensional structure. Often, researchers often use X-ray crystallography to record virus images, but this new way of producing results is faster and more accurate.

By being able to observe the structure of the virus more accurately, scientists can create better vaccines to prevent disease, less likely to be fatal.

In addition to chemical inventions for new materials and energy, the controversial study of DNA change technology also continues to wait for the opportunity to be honored.

The 109th Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be announced as early as 4:45 pm on October 4 (VN time). This is a field of great interest of scientists because of its high practicality.

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017.

Even some "candidates" who have not been awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics are also waiting for their work to be honored in the field of Chemistry.

One of the most interesting and intriguing but controversial areas is the CRISPR genetic toolkit , which is used to cut and regulate DNA on hosts and . humans. CRISPR is a work that will honor Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle and Feng Zhang, the trio of scientists in gene regulation.

In 2016, Chinese scientists were shocked to announce that they had tested the first human gene modification using the CRISPR-Cas9 method.

On the positive side, genetic modification in DNA can be a great step forward for people to get rid of obsessive diseases like cancer and genetics. But it is controversial because of moral factors, as well as concerns about future genetic destruction.

Clarivate Analytics, the information and analytics company that runs the website for scientific research of Web of Science, has made predictions for this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. They appreciate the function of functionalizing carbon-hydrogen structures (CH), asynchronous catalysts and crystalline material structures perovskites.

Clarivate Analytics estimates that chemists such as John Bercaw, Robert Bergman and Russian researcher Georgiy Shul'pin may be honored at this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research on CH, one way Alternative carbon-hydrogen bonding with carbon-carbon or between carbon with other links. This is a useful work for materials and biology.

Meanwhile chemical engineer Jen Norskov at Stanford University (USA) is also a potential candidate for this year's award with a foundation work on asynchronous catalysts, a form of catalyst that helps create progress in production Export of ammonia (used for agriculture, medicine) and fuel cells.

Some researchers such as Tsutomu Miyasaka (Japan), Park Nam Gyu (South Korea) or Henry Snaith (England) also have the opportunity to be honored in exploring crystal structures and applications for solar energy.

In the field of energy, fans of lithium ion batteries have also lobbied the signature in this year's Nobel Prize Chemistry Committee to honor Professor John Goodenough, who has invented a battery of being market on. For years, lithium ion batteries have proven great practicality but have always suffered "second" scenes in various honors.

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