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Community => Science and Technology => Topic started by: dpareja on April 18, 2013, 12:31:55 pm
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/04/17/science-molecular-movie.html (http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/04/17/science-molecular-movie.html)
Canadian scientists have found a way to shoot frame-by-frame video, in millionths of a millionth of a second, of key movements made by a molecule, revealing how it undergoes a fascinating transformation.
"It's the ultimate in slo-mo," said R. J. Dwayne Miller, a University of Toronto chemistry and physics professor and director of the Max Planck Research Group at the University of Hamburg. He was the principle investigator of the team that developed the technique to capture the ultra-ultra-fast movements and slow them down to a visible speed.
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The researchers hope that ultimately, their technique can be used to observe how complex biological molecules such as enzymes — proteins involved in many important biological processes — do their work inside living things.
This is awesome. Understanding how molecules undergo phase changes step-by-step will probably be huge in any number of fields.
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Someone please keep this out of hollywood's hands. Action movies are bad enough already.
Though it does seem like it should be remarkably useful.