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ID’ing Molecules from the Briny Deep

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ABERDEEN, UK, and ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug. 11, 2010 — In a pioneering research project, scientists at IBM and the University of Aberdeen have collaborated to “see” the structure of a marine compound from the deepest place on the Earth using an atomic force microscope (AFM). Their results open up new possibilities in biological research, which could lead to the faster development of new medicines. Their findings were reported in the online Aug. 1 issue of the journal Nature Chemistry. Last year, scientists from the university’s Marine Biodiscovery Centre began work on a species of bacterium from a mud sample taken...Read full article

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    Published: August 2010
    Glossary
    atomic force microscope
    An atomic force microscope (AFM) is a high-resolution imaging and measurement instrument used in nanotechnology, materials science, and biology. It is a type of scanning probe microscope that operates by scanning a sharp tip (usually a few nanometers in diameter) over the surface of a sample at a very close distance. The tip interacts with the sample's surface forces, providing detailed information about the sample's topography and properties at the nanoscale. Key features and principles of...
    magnetic resonance imaging
    An imaging technique used in radiology that is based on the principles of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to produce high-quality images of the inside of the human body by imaging the nuclei of atoms within the body.
    mass spectrometry
    An instrumental technique that utilizes the mass-to-charge ratio of charged particles as recorded from a mass spectrometer in order to determine the mass of a particle as well as the chemical makeup, or elemental ionic composition of a given sample or molecule.
    nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
    That branch of spectroscopy that applies to the study of interactions between energy and atomic nuclei. The simultaneous application of a strong magnetic field and the radiation from a radio-frequency source to the nuclei results in transitions between energy states of the nuclear spin, and the energy needed to incite these transitions can be measured.
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