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Eric Lee and Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Caption: Illinois graduate research assistant Eric Lee (left) and physics professor Klaus Schulten used steered molecular dynamics to model the behavior of every atom of the fibrinogen molecule as it was stretched. The computation involved over a million atoms, and required six months to complete.

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer, U. of I. News Bureau.

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