X-ray Laser Gets First Real-time Snapshots of a Chemical Flipping a Biological Switch (VIDEO)

DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

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Scientists have used the powerful X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to make the first snapshots of a chemical interaction between two biomolecules -- one that flips an RNA 'switch' that regulates production of proteins, the workhorse molecules of life.

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