The Chromatophore (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

The Chromatophore

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Researchers used supercomputers to construct a 136 million-atom model of the chromatophore, a primitive light-harvesting structure in purple bacteria. The simulated organelle behaved just as it does in nature, the team reports.

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Graphic by Christopher Maffeo

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