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Up Close and Personal with Proteins

Dec 14, 2007

MIT's Technology Review has an article about a new tomography technique that "generates a 3-D image [of a human skin cell] with resolution fine enough to distinguish the structures of proteins." Scientists behind the advance say that this will allow people to look at the "uncharted territory" of cells at this resolution, which is about three or four nanometers.

 

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