Catching Molecular Dance Moves in Slow Motion by Adding White Noise
Monday, November 21, 2016 - 15:51
in Physics & Chemistry
If you could watch a molecule of medicine 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 Tech engineers, seeing this kind of detail is more likely to become possible.