Meet the Crystal Smasher

July 1, 2011

Take a tour of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), whose ultra-powerful X-ray beam is being used to solve the structures of proteins that are notoriously hard to crystallize.
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Tags: membrane proteins, structural biology, techniques, x-ray crystallography

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