Science Highlights

Review of SAXS combined with crystallography and computation

A new review on macromolecular SAXS has been published in the Quarterly Reviews in Biophysics by *Putnam, C.D., Hammel, M., Hura, G.L., and Tainer, J.A.* >”This six part review addresses both theoretical and practical concepts, concerns and considerations for using these techniques in conjunction with computational methods to productively combine solution scattering data with high-resolution…
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The Gel Dilemma

Rands is even more obsessed about his writing instruments than Jane and I.

DOMO’s Maiden Voyage

Scott Williams, a postdoc in the Tainer group at The Scripps Research Institute, was the first crystallographer to use DOMO. Here he is kicking back and enjoying some of the fine espresso available at the beamline while DOMO mounts his samples from the custom LN2 sample dewar in the hutch. Scott screened through ~40 samples…
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The Laptop Herring

I would have to say that these sentiments mirror my own when it comes to the appropriateness of laptops in meetings.

Pneumatic Guillotine Lid Installed

After determining that operating the LN2 sample dewar without a lid was going to be problematic with regards to ice accumulation in the liquid nitrogen I decided to design and install a pneumatically operated guillotine lid. Here is a nice aerial shot of the closed lid. hit the jump for details and more pics…

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Structure of a Thermus thermophilus 70S ribosome functional complex at 3.7 Å resolution

In 2006 the Noller lab from the University of California, Santa Cruz solved the structure of the Thermus thermophilus 70S ribosome at 3.7Å resolution. This work was supported by data collected at both 12.3.1 and has been recently highlighted in the ALS news. The original publication was in CELL. Korostelev A, Trakhanov S, Laurberg M,…
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