A new approach for solving protein structures
Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 08:04
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—Using synchrotron x-ray beams to solve the molecular structures of proteins and other large biological molecules has yielded many advances in medicine, such as drug therapies for cancer. Improvements in the techniques available to scientists could lead to even more exciting advances. Recently, scientists from NSLS, the New York Structural Biology Center and Columbia University discovered a new method to determine molecular structures that would have been difficult or impossible to solve otherwise. Their work is reported in the May 25 online edition of Science.