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n. - Any substance that can cause destruction of erythrocytes (red blood cells) and the release of the substance that gives red blood cells their characteristic color

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  • Graphic showing a lipid bilayer membrane (blue) with an alpha-hemolysin nanopore.
  • The technique involves creating a lipid bilayer membrane similar to those in living cells, and "drilling" a pore in it with a protein (alpha-hemolysin) produced by the...
  • Because the dimensions of the lipid bilayer and the alpha-hemolysin pore, as well as the required amount of electrical current, are at the nanoscale level, the...
  • Next, Dr LaVan and his colleagues installed a protein called alpha-hemolysin into the protocell membrane.
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