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Biophysics

First look at the structure of bacterial cell walls

01 May 2018 Hannah Behrens 
Textbook image of peptidoglycan
Textbook images show peptidoglycan as straight and ordered.
The biopolymer peptidoglycan that makes up bacterial cell walls was always assumed to be highly orde

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Hannah Behrens is a PhD student contributor to Physics World. Hannah is studying translational medicine at the University of Oxford. Find out more about our student contributor networks
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