A little bit of a 'magic touch' is usually required for successful growth of high-quality protein crystals for X-ray diffraction. The goal is to produce regular arrangements of rigid molecules in ...

Figure 1: Lattice disorder reveals the continuous molecular transform. The iterative phasing of the continuous diffraction, covering a resolution range of 4.5–3.3 Å, was carried out using the ...

Vague, rippling patterns in X-ray diffraction data long considered useless for producing high-resolution protein structures instead can help improve them, according to a new study (Nature 2016, DOI: ...

A scientific breakthrough gives researchers access to the blueprint of thousands of molecules of great relevance to medicine and biology. The novel technique, opens up an easy way to determine the ...

Menlo Park, Calif. -- Often the most difficult step in taking atomic-resolution images of biological molecules is getting them to form high-quality crystals needed for X-ray studies of their structure ...

In keeping with the adage, “If life gives you lemons, make lemonade,” an international team of scientists has shown that if X-crystallography relies on low-quality crystals, it can still derive ...

This news release is available in German. A scientific breakthrough gives researchers access to the blueprint of thousands of molecules of great relevance to medicine and biology. The novel technique, ...