A new x-ray vision (VIDEO)
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ASU’s compact x-ray light source will provide key capabilities to help understand both the three-dimensional arrangement and motions of atoms, helping to resolve protein function or advance drug discovery by seeing how a drug interacts with its molecular target, for example. “This is giving us a new tool to look at medical science and semiconductors and all kinds of imaging in different ways,” said William Graves, the project’s chief scientist, director of Accelerator Science at the Biodesign Institute, and a professor in ASU’s College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. “What this machine allows us to do is see soft tissue changes. We can see blood flowing in blood vessels. We can see individual nerves. We can see down to the cellular level.”
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Ken Fagan, ASU
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