Creating visual models can be very beneficial educationally, while you can do this using software and view in on screen, sometimes building by hand can be very beneficial, and perhaps therapeutic too. If you are studying biology then DNA plays a part in this subject, so building a model of the DNA molecule (or part of it) is useful PDB101 has a nice paper model of this, which we can look at building at a future STEM Group meeting at Paignton Library.

In the meantime you can still use Rasmol and OpenRasMol to visualise molecules and other structures.

Links

• Science Forums
• Science forums – DNA
• Paignton Library STEM Group
• RasMol

Tags

#DNA,#Paper,#Model,#Molecular,#Visualisation

I found an interesting article entitled Astatine is a chemistry puzzle that shows anticancer promise so decided to try and build the molecule cited in the article from Molymods.

I am not too sure if I have done this correctly so am asking putting all the information here in the hope someone can perhaps help and advise further.

My main concern here is between the C6H4At – and N2 part, I have had to put in a carbon as I would assume the angle between the two indicates a carbon atom. This has left 2 Bonds free so not sure if I am meant to attach Hydrogen here.

So hopefully the above illustrates what I have built, so question is simply is this correct.

There is a thread on Science forums to discuss further here

#science,#model,#anti,#cancer,#drugs,#Astatine