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First-of-its-Kind Hard X-ray Free-Electron Laser Images Intact Viruses
Zothecula writes "In a paper published in the current edition of Nature, an international team of scientists describe how they obtained the world's first single-shot images of intact viruses – a technology that could ultimately lead to moving video of molecules, viruses and live microbes. Another paper by the same team describes how they were also able to successfully utilize a new shortcut for determining the 3D structures of proteins. Both advances were achieved using the world's first hard X-ray free-electron laser – the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) – which scientists hope could revolutionize the study of life."
How long until the TSA insists on having these?
That’s still long enough to cause its subjects to vaporize , but that doesn’t happen until after their pictures have been snapped.
So that means that the TSA will not be using hard X-rays . . . um, doesn't it?
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
No way. This doesn't begin to compare to what Obama did in the first two weeks of his presidency.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
I-just wanted to Hard free-comment on-this-story with intact-hyphens.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
But that's the best picture they can get of the largest virus known to mankind?
That's just the first part. Then they send it over to the CSI guys and say "enhance!"
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