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Quick biology brush-up: Viruses and bacteria are made of folded chains of amino acids called proteins. In order to develop effective drug treatments, drug designers select target proteins for a given disease, determine functions, and concoct strategies to attack the virus.
But that’s no easy task. Even with an array of modern scientific equipment, structural biologists have few ways to visualize the molecules they’re working with in a manner that advances their research.
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