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Fig. 1: Demonstration of ageing in molecular dynamics of PGK.

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Li, J., Hu, X., Neusius, T. et al. Reply to: Insufficient evidence for ageing in protein dynamics. Nat. Phys. 17, 775–776 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01270-8

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