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A New Tool To Reveal Structure Of Proteins - A new method to reveal the structure of proteins could help researchers understand biological molecules – both those involved in causing disease and those performing critical functions in healthy cells. In the current online edition of Nature Chemistry, Christopher Jaroniec, associate professor of chemistry at Ohio State University, and his colleagues describe a new solid state NMR method that uses paramagnetic tags to help visualize the shape of protein molecules. Reference: 'Protein fold determined by paramagnetic magic-angle spinning solid-state NMR spectroscopy,' I. Sengupta et al, Nature Chemistry (2012) doi:10.1038/nchem.1299