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.