Extreme X-ray pulses create unique image of intact virus

Thursday, February 3, 2011 - 13:21 in Physics & Chemistry

An international research team has managed to capture an image of an intact virus and a membrane structure from a photosynthetic bacterium with the aid of extremely intensive and ultra-short x-ray pulses from the world's first X-ray free electron laser. This new advance in structural biology is being published today in two articles in the journal Nature...

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