Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Catching molecular dance moves in slow motion by adding white noise


Catching molecular dance moves in slow motion by adding white noise

11/30/2016 08:37 AM EST

atomic forces coming from proteins interacting under an atomic force microscope

If you could watch to a molecule of medication attaching to a cell receptor in extreme slow motion, they would look something like a space ship docking with a space station--some twists, turns, sputters then locking together tight. With a new improvement to atomic force microscopy by Georgia Institute of Technology engineers, seeing this kind of detail is more likely to become possible.


Full story at http://www.news.gatech.edu/2016/11/21/catching-molecular-dances-slow-motion-adding-white-noise

Source
Georgia Institute of Technology


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