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X-rays and the Atomic World of Proteins

Special | 1h 1m 11s  | Video has closed captioning.

Basudeb Bhattacharyya, Research Scientist, Department of Biochemistry, UW-Madison, explains how structural biology uses x-rays and high energy magnetic fields as “microscopes” to look at protein atoms-- which are about 1/100,000th the size of a grain of salt.

Aired: 05/20/14

Rating: TV-G

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