Crystal-free crystallography
A new twist can make seeing tricky molecules crystal clear.
How do we know that DNA is a double helix, or that coronavirus spike proteins are spike-shaped? One technique – X-ray...
X-ray crystallography
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Polly Porter rolls the stones
As a Victorian-era girl, Mary Winearls Porter was kept from education, making her later scientifi...
Polly Porter. The name sounds more like a character in a young-adult adventure story from the early 20th century than...
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The world’s biggest X-ray laser blasts into action
European XFEL unlock unseen details of the molecular world.
It’s on. The world’s most powerful X-ray laser, the European X-ray Free Electron Laser, has blasted its first sample....