A mechanism for touch

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Edwin W McCleskey. Nature. 2019 Sep.

. 2019 Sep;573(7773):199-200.

doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-02454-2.

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Keywords: Biophysics; Microscopy; Structural biology.

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