How to Use crystallography in a Sentence
crystallography
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Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist on the cutting edge of X-ray crystallography.
—Lauren Kent, CNN, 28 Jan. 2020
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In 1953, Franklin used the then-new field of x-ray crystallography to image crystals of DNA.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2019
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One of her students took the first photo of DNA through X-ray crystallography.
—Halley Bondy, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2021
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In 1915, he and his father were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for their work in X-ray crystallography.
—Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2023
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The technique, called crystallography, was a bit like making a shadow animal on the wall with one’s hand and a flashlight.
—Clifton Leaf, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2018
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Other researchers also use a method called X-ray crystallography to study the virus’s structure.
—Sophia Chen, Wired, 8 Apr. 2020
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Other teams had designed x-ray crystallography to image tiny structures, but the process did not work with many living structures.
—Maggie Fox, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2017
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In the best cases, researchers can now make maps with resolutions below 2 angstroms, putting cryo-EM on par with crystallography.
—Eric Hand, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
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To map protein structures, scientists have been using x-ray crystallography since the late 1950s.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 21 Oct. 2020
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So, McLellan used x-ray crystallography—a technique that uses x-ray beams to determine the structure of proteins—to capture an image of the prefusion protein for the first time.
—Daniel Wrapp, Science, 31 Dec. 2020
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X-ray crystallography has produced the lion’s share of protein structures.
—Ewen Callaway, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2020
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The scattering can be used to create imagery of these materials in much the same way that X-ray crystallography reveals the structure of complex molecules.
—Tim Lougheed, Science | AAAS, 21 Sep. 2017
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Cao first tried the most common technique for studying the architecture of complex proteins, called X-ray crystallography.
—Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2014
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The problem is, these predicted folding patterns were frequently wrong, failing to match the structures scientists found through X-ray crystallography.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2020
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Further advances have brought cryo-EM within reach of resolving single atoms, rivalling x-ray crystallography.
—Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 4 Oct. 2017
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The printer cranks out up to 150 polyhedra each year – everything from models of protein crystallography to Mars' topography.
—Stacey Smith Lang, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2001
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Requirements to post raw data were already common in other fields of science like genetics and crystallography.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2012
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Data from x-ray crystallography and cryo–electron microscopy experiments can be difficult to interpret, Baek and others say, and having a model can help.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 22 July 2021
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Franklin was a brilliant scientist in her own right — a physical chemist — and rose to discover the structure of DNA through laborious investigation with X-ray crystallography.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 July 2021
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Yonath and Brian Kobilka won Nobel Prizes for using x-ray crystallography to understand cell structures that are vital targets for drug development.
—The Editors, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2013
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Another technique, x-ray crystallography, has long been the gold standard for mapping individual atoms within a 3D protein structure.
—Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, 31 Dec. 2020
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Jerram begins by studying and comparing existing scientific imagery and models of viruses made through techniques like electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography.
—Laura Mallonee, Wired, 17 Mar. 2020
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Technological improvements have allowed researchers to view cells and viruses through electron microscopes and X-ray crystallography, which also enables capturing millions of images of them.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN, 29 Oct. 2020
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Elton is internationally recognized as an expert in the use of x-ray crystallography as a means to understanding the molecular structure of connective tissue with a special interest in collagen.
—courant.com, 21 Nov. 2019
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But Yanik does think the approach will be useful—especially given its relative affordability compared with other ways of monitoring proteins, such as x-ray crystallography.
—Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2022
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This detects which repeating patterns show up especially strongly — it’s the same mathematics that underlies technologies like X-ray crystallography and radio spectroscopy.
—Quanta Magazine, 3 Aug. 2020
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Using X-ray crystallography and later electron microscopy, combined with computer modeling, researchers created highly detailed three-dimensional images of proteins on the surface of HIV.
—Betsy McKay, WSJ, 24 Dec. 2020
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Moult says structural biologists have dreamed for decades that accurate computer models would one day augment extremely precise protein shapes derived from experimental methods such as x-ray crystallography.
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 22 July 2021
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For decades, researchers deciphered proteins’ 3D structures using experimental techniques such as x-ray crystallography or cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM).
—Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 30 Nov. 2020
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Experimental and analytical sciences—genetics, biochemistry, crystallography, and eventually molecular biology—made natural history seem old fashioned.
—Steven Lubar, Smithsonian, 10 Aug. 2017
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