Magnetic Control of Proteins: More than a Dream
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Blog Post
... tools for familiar applications. But how does one invent a tool for applications that don’t even exist...and develop potential applications.
Andrew is a frequent collaborator and is happy to give advice and support...phenomenon, improve the tool, and develop new applications for magnetoresponsive proteins.
Motivated by...organisms) are opaque, which makes most biomedical applications of these tools difficult or impossible. But ...tool with magnets would enable new research and applications that don’t yet exist, but it wasn’t clear that...molecules like proteins with magnetic fields generally appears to be weak — if they exist at all. Andrew and Maria...fluorescence intensity decreased whenever the magnet approached the sample (by less than 1%) and recovered after...