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Biochemists using this technique rely on bi·celles, bi·layers, or bacterio·phages to establish a rhombic alignment tensor. This experimental technique is used to compute a protein’s Saupe tensor, its random coil index, and an order parameter symbolized “capital S squared.” This technique is the gold standard for real-time measurement of RNA and protein folding ensembles. During refinement, this technique provides both distance and angular constraints by combining a through-space measurement of cross-polarization with residual dipolar couplings. Unlike cryo-E·M or crystallography, this (10[1])technique provides protein structures in solution through experiments like HSQC (10[2])or NOESY (10[8])(“nosy”). Before (10[2])analysis by this technique, (10[1])samples are labeled with odd-mass isotopes (10[1])like nitrogen-15 (10[1])or carbon-13. For 10 (10[1])points, name this form of spectroscopy in which (10[1])nuclear spins (10[1])are (10[1])flipped (10[2])in a magnetic field. ■END■ (10[2]0[1])

ANSWER: NMR [or nuclear magnetic resonance; or magnetic resonance spectroscopy or MRS; accept NOESY or nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy; accept COSY or correlated spectroscopy; accept HSQC or heteronuclear single quantum correlation spectroscopy; accept other explicit types of NMR such as protein NMR, proton NMR, carbon-13 NMR, or nitrogen-15 NMR; prompt on spectroscopy until read]
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Daniel SheinbergYale AStanford A7910
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Pranav SivaramOhio State AChicago B9110
Arya KarthikGeorgia Tech AFlorida A9110
Mazin OmerHarvard AToronto A9110
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Adam FineChicago AWUSTL A9110
Joelle SmartRutgers AYale B9110
Geoffrey ChenCornell ADuke A9110
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Noah ChenColumbia BMichigan A10210
Alex AkridgeIndiana AMIT A10410
Shahar SchwartzUC Berkeley AChicago C10810
Rahim DinaImperial AFlorida B11610
JD KrothIowa State APenn State A11810
S. A. ShenoyGeorgia Tech BPenn A11910
Benjamin WeinerMinnesota BHouston A12010
June YinWUSTL BVirginia A12010
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Justin ChenNYU ARutgers B1250
Tomás Aguilar-FragaClaremont AMcGill A12510