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Art of Science Gallery 07

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Asylum Research Cypher ES Atomic Force Microscope

Jaya Yodh

IGB Core Facilities

Funded by the NSF
The strong lines in this image echo the sinuous shape of double-stranded DNA. Imaging such a small structure—forty thousand times narrower than a single human hair—requires a very specialized instrument. This image was created as an early test of a new atomic force microscope, which uses a minuscule and precisely controlled physical probe to construct images of structures that were previously beyond the reach of scientific instrumentation.