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Published online 7 March 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000309-5
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New ways with X-rays
What do a five-year-old child and an X-ray beam have in common? It's impossible to make either of them look but not touch, says David Adam.
What do a five-year old child and an X-ray beam have in common? It's impossible to make either of them look but not touch.
Just as some X-rays can picture the skeleton beneath the skin, others can reveal the intricate arrangements of molecules that make up a protein.
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