Scientists image PISA wheel

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In a world’s first, scientists in the Veglia lab have imaged the first PISA wheel in the Sarcolipin cluster. The image was a result of a painstaking 20 minutes of acquisition time on a 600 MHz NMR spectrometer and a whopping 514 KB of data. To get an idea of that scale, that’s the time it takes to drink a coffee and just over a third of a floppy disk. The results were very surprising. One confused scientist in the group thought he was seeing some sort of space bagel.

 

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