Steffen Brünle and Jörg Standfuss, Paul Scherrer Institute (IMAGE)

Paul Scherrer Institute

Steffen Brünle and Jörg Standfuss, Paul Scherrer Institute

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Steffen Brünle (right) and Jörg Standfuss at the apparatus they use to separate proteins from each other. For their study, the researchers modified insect cells to produce a human protein. To extract this from the cell, the cell was destroyed, and then the protein, whose structure the researchers have now elucidated, was separated with the help of this apparatus.

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Paul Scherrer Institute/Markus Fischer

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