Muons penetrate much further than X-rays, they do essentially zero damage, and they are provided for free by the cosmos.
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MICROBIOLOGY Correction for “Structural bases for F plasmid conjugation and F pilus biogenesis in Escherichia coli,” by Bo Hu, Pratick Khara, and Peter J. Christie, which was first published June 25, 2019; 10.1073/pnas.1904428116 (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116, 14222–14227).
The authors note that the following statement should be added to the Acknowledgments: “We thank Dr. Rachel Bosserman for the image of the cell in SI Appendix, Fig. S2A that was generated by transmission electron microscopy.”
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Correction for Hu et al., Structural bases for F plasmid conjugation and F pilus biogenesis in Escherichia coli
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