NMR advance relies on microscopic detector

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MIT researchers created this NMR probe which is smaller than a credit card and decreases by several orders of magnitude the amount of a protein needed to measure the proteins structure. Photo courtesy: Yael Maguire
MIT researchers created this NMR probe, which is smaller than a credit card and decreases by several orders of magnitude the amount of a protein needed to measure the protein's structure. Photo courtesy: Yael Maguire

Detecting the molecular structure of a tiny protein using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) currently requires two things: a million-dollar machine the size of a massive SUV, and a large sample of the protein under study.


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