Exploration by explosion: Studying the inner realm of living cells
Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 14:49
in Biology & Nature
Scientists in Washington, DC, are reporting development and successful tests of a new way for exploring the insides of living cells, the microscopic building blocks of all known plants and animals. They explode the cell while it is still living inside a plant or animal, vaporize its contents, and sniff. The study appears in online in ACS' journal Analytical Chemistry.
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