Francis Crick, who famously co-discovered the shape of DNA, once said: “If you want to understand function, study structure.” Many decades later, this remains a tenet of biology, chemistry, and ...

Crystallography is the term applied to the field which studies crystalline structures. Many crystalline structures exist in nature, such as gemstones and rocks. In the field of life sciences, however, ...

X-ray crystallography has been instrumental in this pursuit, allowing scientists to determine molecular structures with precision. In traditional X-ray crystallography experiments, a single crystal is ...

When cells divide, replicated chromosomes carrying DNA separate and move to daughter cells. This process of chromosome segregation is essential in all domains of life to ensure each daughter cell ...

Laureates arrive for the traditional Nobel Prize banquet at the Stockholm City Hall on December 10, 2013. In total, 28 Nobel prized discoveries have been associated with crystallography, among them ...

Drug development relies on having an accurate knowledge of the structure of organic molecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, and viruses. The field is a multi-billion-dollar industry, and the need ...

The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) is accepting applications for its Engagement Grants, which support resources and activities created to increase interest in crystallography and ...

The world of the nanomolecular is an enigmatic one. To understand the physical, chemical, and nuclear properties that shape the world, scientists have devised ever-more sophisticated methods over the ...

When chemists want to determine the structure of a molecule, they typically turn to X-ray crystallography. But chemists often find they can’t grow the large, high-quality crystals required for ...

Protein crystallography makes use of X-ray diffraction to understand the molecular structure of proteins and is responsible for the majority of structural knowledge of biology at the molecular level.

IN the period between the War of 1914–18 and the beginning of the present War, crystallography experienced a rejuvenation, and in its new form of X-ray crystallography it has once more attained a ...