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Molecular orbitals of a portion of DNA molecule
The molecular orbitals of a portion of DNA molecule, a key component of the genetic code.
[Research supported by National Science Foundation grants MCB 1616590, MCB 1244570, PHY 1430124 and ACI 1713784.]
Learn more about this research in the University of Illinois news story Team brings subatomic resolution to computational microscope. (Date image taken: February 2018; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Feb. 18, 2020)
Credit: Marcelo Melo and Rafael C. Bernardi, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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