The Manipulation of Single Biomolecules
- 1 October 2001
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 54 (10) , 46-51
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1420553
Abstract
By monitoring the response of individual protein and DNA molecules to pulling and twisting, biophysicists can learn much about their structure and their interactions.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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