Exploration by explosion: Studying the inner realm of living cells

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, vaporise its contents, and sniff. The study appears in online in ACS' journal Analytical Chemistry...

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