Lasers To Align Molecules At Argonne

Protein crystallographers have only scratched the surface of the human proteins important for drug interactions because of difficulties crystallizing the molecules for synchrotron x-ray diffraction.Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have devised a way to eliminate the need for crystallization by using lasers to align large groups of molecules.

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Filed under: Biology on May 15th, 2008