Producing these hybrid fullerene-quantum dot is a chemical process, rather than a traditional manufacturing one.

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C-Sixty, a firm based in Toronto, that is now developing the first fullerene-based drug candidates.

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C-Sixty's fullerene-based drug scuppers this process by settling snugly into the enzyme's active site, stopping it functioning.

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Since the dendrimers are water-soluble, the whole complex can dissolve in biological fluids, which fullerene alone cannot.

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Composed of light-absorbing, colloidal quantum dots linked to carbon-based fullerene nanoparticles, these tiny two-particle systems can convert light to electricity in a precisely controlled way.

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C-Sixty's fullerene drug forms a mechanical plug for the active site.

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Stephen Wilson, a chemist at New York University, discovered that the surface of the fullerene molecule could be used as a scaffold to support other molecules.

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