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Caption: Haiyu Wang, Neal Woodbury (l-r) and colleagues at the Biodesign Institute at ASU have provided new insight into the basic mechanisms of photosynthesis, a biological process that supports all life on earth. The biodesign team has shown that it is protein motion that determines the dynamics of the initial electron transfer reactions of photosynthesis, rather than static interactions between cofactors. The Biodesign researches use an ultrafast laser facility to capture 'snapshots' of the electron transfer at femtosecond rates, or a fifteen millionth of a second.
Credit: Barb Backes, Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University
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