Tiny crystals could revolutionize structural biology studies
Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 14:01
in Physics & Chemistry
Scientists have developed a new method that generates a high-resolution protein structure from crystals one-million times smaller than those needed for X-ray crystallography, the most common method for determining protein structure. The new technique, called MicroED, has the potential to accelerate structural biologists' efforts and to expand the repertoire of proteins whose high-resolution structures can be solved.