AFM Reveals Biological Mechanisms

摘要

Some of the latest atomic force microscopy (AFM) research demonstrates that the technique can provide information about the molecular composition of protein complexes and can show how something as tiny as a retrovirus, such as HIV, replicates in real time. Using chemically modified probes, the method can elucidate the chemical characteristics of a pathogen's surface, information that can be used to develop antibiotics against it.