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Medical News | Medical Articles: Enable HIV research with light scattering

	August 28, 2019
	Infectious Diseases
	The latest infectious diseases news from News Medical

Enable HIV research with light scattering

Light scattering technology is a key ingredient for success in structural biology and drug discovery. For Kushol Gupta of the U. of Pennsylvania, light scattering underlies successful HIV research (webinar).

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