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Single virus force spectroscopy

The ties that bind

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A new technology enables high-resolution force mapping between a single virus and its target cell while simultaneously imaging live cell fluorescence.

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Figure 1: Schematic of the correlative confocal and force mapping microscope system.

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  1. Christian Sieben is in the Laboratory of Experimental Biophysics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Rte de la Sorge, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland,

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  2. Andreas Herrmann is at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Institute for Biology, Molecular Biophysics, Invalidenstr. 42, 10115 Berlin, Germany,

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