For over a century, X-ray crystallography has enabled scientists to elucidate biological structures in exquisite detail. Now, powerful new technologies are bringing unprecedented opportunities to add ...

X-ray crystallography uses the principles of X-ray diffraction to analyze the sample, but it is done in many different directions so that the 3D structure can be built up. It is a technique that has ...

Technology's workhorse for determining protein structures is X-ray protein crystallography, in which a beam of x-rays sent through a crystallized protein is scattered by the protein's atoms, ...

X-ray crystallography is still one of the best methods for the structural analysis of many substances. It remains a powerful, simple, and reliable technique that is used by laboratories across the ...

Jerome Karle, right, and his wife, Isabella. Credit: Getty Images In X-ray crystallography, an X-ray beam bounces off the crystal form of a molecule to produce a pattern of points of light.

Noting the time when this reaction began, the scientists then used X-ray crystallography to take snapshots of the protein's structure, starting at one 10-billionth of a second.