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	Single molecule imaged for first time

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8-30-2009 7:46 AM

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9-1-2009 4:38 PM

abailart

That's fascinating and the practical possibilities are exciting. (I think, strictly speaking, it is a mediated and generated image of the force-field 'backbone' structure of atoms rather than an isomorphic 'picture' of a molecule?)

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