These examples are just the tip of the iceberg, or (to put more appropriately) merely the surface layer of atoms of the science of crystallography and what it has achieved. It’s been a pleasure to ...

Biochemist and crystallographer Nadrian “Ned” Seeman died in New York City at the age of 75 on November 16. Seeman is best known for inventing self-assembling DNA structures, which launched the field ...

base-pairing: In a key insight on the road to discovering DNA's structure, Watson figured out that the four basic chemicals in DNA paired up as follows: adenine with thymine and guanine with cytosine.

Rosalind Franklin’s work contributed to Watson and Crick’s discovery of DNA’s structure. X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin’s work contributed to James Watson and Francis Crick’s discovery of ...

Crystallographer Dr Kazutaka Shoyama in front of his working tool, a single crystal diffractometer. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

“It takes a very special breed of scientist to do this work ... it is an area of science in which women dominate.” So said the professor introducing distinguished British crystallographer Judith ...