X-ray laser gets first real-time snapshots of a chemical flipping a biological switch

Monday, November 14, 2016 - 11:01 in Physics & Chemistry

Scientists have used the powerful X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to make the first snapshots of a chemical interaction between two biomolecules - one that flips an RNA "switch" that regulates production of proteins, the workhorse molecules of life.

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