How NMR is helping scientists probe molecular structures It was after six on a Monday evening in September, and Durga Prasad Hari was in a hurry. Holding a thin glass tube in his hand, he walked quickly to the common instrument facility on the ground floor of the Chemical Sciences building, two […]
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Taking Cold Snapshots of Life
Cryo-EM, an emerging technique, is allowing scientists to better zoom in on cells and molecules “Like any living organisms, we are a bag of water, formed from billions of cells which all are small bags of water. Since air is not transparent to electrons, an electron microscope must operate under vacuum – which […]