XFEL Image of the Mimivirus (IMAGE)

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XFEL Image of the Mimivirus

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By combining diffraction patterns of single viruses measured with the intense beam from Stanford's X-ray free-electron-laser (XFEL), a team of researchers reconstructed the 3-D structure of the mimivirus.

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Tomas Ekeberg et al., <i>Phys. Rev. Lett</i>. 114, 098102 (2015).

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