Team proposes new law to accurately measure charged macromolecules

Monday, October 24, 2016 - 14:01 in Physics & Chemistry

For biochemists, measuring the size and diffusion properties of large molecules such as proteins and DNA using dynamic light-scattering techniques and the Stokes-Einstein formula has been mostly straightforward for decades, except for one major snag - it doesn't work when these macromolecules carry an electric charge.

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