Determining protein structures requires crystals, but getting proteins to crystallize has long depended on a slow, unpredictable process of trial and error ...

To replicate information, life usually has fairly straightforward ways of doing things. To copy DNA, you generally use DNA as a template. To make RNA, cells generally use DNA as a template, while RNA ...

Using DNA, the team directed proteins to assemble into diffraction-quality, intentionally designed crystal structures with atomic-level order. The strategy enabled the scientists to precisely control ...