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Nature 427, 105-106 (8 January 2004) | doi:10.1038/427105a
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A glass bead game
Thomas M. Bayerl1
Abstract
Microscopic glass beads coated with lipid membranes provide a sensitive detector of interactions between proteins and ligands. The changing spatial order of the array of beads in solution is the key.
At the start of a game of snooker, the balls are arranged in an ordered shape, each touching its neighbours, in a triangular rack. As the game begins, a player aims the cue ball at the apex of the triangle and disperses the object balls over the table.
- Thomas M. Bayerl is at the Physical Institute, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97047 Würzburg, Germany.
Email: bayerl@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de
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