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Acknowledgments
We thank Dr. Rasmus Schröder for helping us to collect energy-filtered TEM
images of collagen fibrils in vitreous ice, using a Zeiss 912 instrument. This

work was supported by the Wellcome Trust (019512). Karl E. Kadler is a
recipient of a Senior Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust.

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