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They're now able to do stop-action photography on atoms and electrons.
On a somewhat larger - but still microscopic - scale, biologists can peer into the nucleus of a living cell and spy on the interaction of proteins, the basic building blocks of every organism. "We're watching the dance of the proteins in action," molecular biologist David Piwnica-Worms, also at Washington University, said.
For example, Douglass Forbes, a biologist at the University of California, San Diego, has made movies of proteins shuttling cargo in and out of the nucleus of a cell through miniature, doughnut-shaped pores. "They're like small spaceships for nuclear transport," Forbes said.
The implications of this are immense.
Posted by Rand Simberg at April 16, 2003 02:10 PM
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This sounds extremely cool, but where are the mpegs?
Posted by Erann Gat at April 16, 2003 02:33 PM
That is so neat!
Posted by Jay Solo at April 16, 2003 04:04 PM
Does this mean Rudolph's Microscopic Christmas is a go?
Posted by Syd Barrett at April 17, 2003 06:24 AM
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