Researchers used x-ray technology to examine the structure of the enzyme, which changes depending on its function.

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The two institutes have developed compact and portable x-ray devices capable of analysing the structure and chemical composition of ancient bones, buildings, and art objects in a non-destructive fashion.

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X-ray machine in France, to analyse the structure of their fireballs.

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It took advantage of X-ray crystallography that charted the precise three-dimensional structure of how Gleevec binds to Bcr-Abl.

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"It's correlating the increasing intensity in different bands that provides really important clues about the structure of the source, " Prof Madejski - a co-investigator on the NuStar X-ray telescope, told BBC News.

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