Artist rendering of small molecules (IMAGE)

Aalto University

Artist rendering of small molecules

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Metabolites are extremely small – the diameter of a human hair is 100,000 nanometers, while that of a glucose molecule is approximately one nanometer.

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Matti Ahlgren/Aalto University

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