Wednesday, March 22, 2006

Birth of a (protein) molecule...

Thought this report was quite interesting...always love those under-the-hood revelations...tho' the movies seem hazy and jerky, like the b&w clips of yore, still one can make out the splitting of the original cell...

From the report:

Chemists at Harvard University have developed the first technique providing a real-time, molecule-by-molecule "movie" of protein production in live cells. Their direct observation of fluorescently tagged molecules in single cells - providing striking real-time footage of the birth of individual new protein molecules inside - greatly increases scientists' precision in probing genetic activity.

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