Nanotrapping Molecules for X-ray Crystallography
June 25, 2013 | Terry Sharrer
X-ray crystallography has been somewhat limited because the defraction process required a single crystal of, say, protein or DNA from the start. Recently, however, researchers in Japan and Finland have developed a means of trapping very small crystals in a solution which then allows the trapped crystal to be analyzed. The trapping crystal is 0.1 mm cubed and it is able to attract other crystals as small as 80ng. MORE