A pair of University of Houston professors, known globally for their seminal contributions to crystal engineering with specific breakthroughs in the design of therapeutics to prevent crystallization in human diseases, are discovering how cholesterol crystals are formed in environments that mimic the human body.
Jeffrey Rimer, Abraham E. Dukler Endowed Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Peter Vekilov, Frank L. Worley Endowed Professor of Chemical Engineering, have published these findings and the corresponding videos of surface growth, which offer valuable insights into cholesterol’s role in heart disease, in Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.
It’s the first time anyone has been able to take images of the surface growth of cholesterol crystals in real time at near molecular resolution.
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