GERBER: Our sole idea in developing AFM was to image nonconductive surfaces, such as ceramics or biological materials,
at atomic resolution by scratching a very fine needle on a long arm, or cantilever, over that surface.
Not exact matches
The study appeared in the April 14 print edition of Chemical Communications in the article «Visualizing Nanoparticle Mobility in Liquid
at Atomic Resolution,»
by Madeline Dukes, an applications scientist
at Protochips Inc. in Raleigh, N.C.; Benjamin Jacobs, an applications scientist
at Protochips; David Morgan, assistant manager of the Cryo - Transmission Electron Microscopy Facility
at Indiana University Bloomington; Harshad Hegde, a computer scientist
at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute; and Kelly, who is also an assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Science
at Virginia Tech.
Now a team led
by x-ray crystallographer Wayne Hendrickson
at Columbia University in New York City and molecular virologist Joseph Sodroski
at the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute in Boston has determined gp120's
atomic structure to a
resolution of 2.5 angstroms.
This was made possible
by a combination of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (EPR), two procedures that make it possible to characterise the structural configuration of a protein
at atomic resolution.
«Fitzpatrick and colleagues have paved the way for development of new drugs designed to prevent tangle formation
by deciphering the molecular structure of the «tau» protein filaments that make up the tangles
at atomic resolution.