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Small is beautiful

Using two independent methods, researchers show that in vivo–grown crystals of soluble proteins and of membrane proteins grown in the lipidic sponge phase can be analyzed by serial femtosecond crystallography on an X-ray free electron laser.

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Moffat, K. Small is beautiful. Nat Methods 9, 242–243 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1895

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