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Some might argue that there is not much neuroscience left in the study of ion channels when the key experiments are carried out at the synchrotron and their interpretation involves atomic coordinates instead of picoamperes. But the truth is that crystallographic analysis has opened our eyes to new principles of channel function and is beginning to answer questions that neuroscientists have been asking for a long time.
