x-ray crystallography

Seeman is best known for establishing the field of DNA nanotechnology.

The former Columbia University professor’s early work helped illuminate the structure of penicillin, allowing chemists to make variants and broaden the scope of antibiotic treatments.

The scientific community said goodbye to a number of leading researchers this year.

The chemist and biophysicist won a Nobel prize for the development of a technique to probe the structures of nucleotide-protein complexes.

Steitz determined the atomic structure of the ribosome, work for which he won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Philip Coppens, who developed photocrystallography, has passed away at age 86.

The awesome architecture of the gateways to the nucleus

Structural studies reveal how SSRI drugs bind to the human serotonin transporter.

A behind-the-scenes look at how researchers solved the high-resolution crystal structure of the nucleosome core particle raises the age-old question of assigning credit in science.

Alexander Rich, discoverer of Z-DNA, the RNA-DNA double helix, and the structure of collagen, has passed away at age 90.

Researchers reveal clues regarding how an ancient mitochondrial enzyme helps maintain healthy cells across the tree of life.

UNESCO highlights accomplishments in crystallography in a year-long celebration in 2014.  

New research on the structure of the surface protein the virus uses to infiltrate human cells clashes with an earlier paper’s findings, causing some scientists to call for a retraction.

Nobel Laureate Jerome Karle has passed away at age 94.

A guide to fragment-based drug discovery

As X-ray crystallography enters its second century, shrinking crystals and brighter light sources are redefining structural biology.

Irving Geis’s revolutionary painting of sperm whale myoglobin illuminated the nascent field of protein structure.