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Laser Diffraction of Trypanosoma brucei cathepsin B

Caption: A map of intensities merged using the CrystFEL software suite from almost two hundred thousand diffraction patterns obtained from in vivo grown crystals of Trypanosoma brucei cathepsin B. This map is used to synthesize the three-dimensional molecular structure of the enzyme.

Credit: Karol Nass / CFEL

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