You can learn more about CrystalChip by reading Claude Sauter et al.'s paper at Jove, "Crystallization and Structural Determination of an Enzyme: Substrate Complex by Serial Crystallography in a Versatile Microfluidic Chip."

Recently, we discovered an Antiques Roadshow segment featuring a fascinating appraisal of two signed pieces of scientific history! A molecular biologist brings in a 1953 issue of Nature magazine containing Watson and Crick's groundbreaking DNA structure paper, signed by Watson himself. Even more exciting, he presents a first edition of Watson's The Double Helix signed by both Watson and Crick! The appraiser discusses the significance of these items and their rarity and provides a surprising valuation for this unique collection.

The 18th Conference of the Asian Crystallographic Association (AsCA 2024) will be held from December 1st to the 6th in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The conference's theme is "Crystallography Today: Beyond the Fundamental Science." We are sponsoring this event.

The 75th ACA Structural Science Society Annual meeting will be held July 18th to 23rd in Lombard, IL. This event provides scientists from a wide variety of backgrounds with the opportunity to exchange cutting-edge ideas and techniques in multiple areas of research. We are sponsoring it.

Here is a small selection of industry resources and news for your browsing.

• Paper at Acta Cryst B, The seventh blind test of crystal structure prediction: structure generation methods - Learn More
• From Diamond Light Source, Biological Cryo-Imaging Group Update 2023-2024 - Learn More
• Paper at Acta Cryst D, CHiMP: deep-learning tools trained on protein crystallization micrographs to enable automation of experiments - Learn More
• From Appl Cryst JAC, Free tools for crystallographic symmetry handling and visualization - Learn More
• Article at Chemical Communications, Body temperature protein X-ray crystallography at 37 °C: a rhenium protein complex seeking a physiological condition structure - Learn More
• Paper at Acta Cryst D, EMhub: a web platform for data management and on-the-fly processing in scientific facilities - Learn More
• From CCDC Cambridge, Resource of Diffraction Images Newcastle (RODIN), a new teaching resource with raw X-ray diffraction data sets from crystallography experiments - Learn More
• Paper at Acta Cryst D, The success rate of processed predicted models in molecular replacement: implications for experimental phasing in the AlphaFold era - Learn More
• From IUCr, Interviews with authors: Dive into the latest with John Helliwell discussing Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and its 3D structures from crystallography and electron cryo-microscopy - Learn More
• Article at Nature, The huge protein database that spawned AlphaFold and biology’s AI revolution - Learn More
• Paper at IUCrJ, Waterless Structures in the Protein Data Bank - Learn More
• Paper at IUCr, Using deep-learning predictions reveals a large number of register errors in PDB depositions - Learn More
• Article at Nature Methods, Elemental mapping in single-particle reconstructions by reconstructed electron energy-loss analysis - Learn More
• Paper at IUCr, Roodmus: a toolkit for benchmarking heterogeneous electron cryo-microscopy reconstructions - Learn More
• Article at Structure, Exploiting cryo-EM structures of actomyosin-5a to reveal the physical properties of its lever - Learn More
• Article at Nature Methods, DiffModeler: large macromolecular structure modeling for cryo-EM maps using a diffusion model - Learn More
• From Brookhaven Lab, the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II) reflects on the last decade and looks toward the years ahead as they celebrate 10 years since first light - Learn More
• Paper at Synchrotron JSR, Development of crystal optics for X-ray multi-projection imaging for synchrotron and XFEL sources - Learn More
• Find beamline proposal deadlines from around the world at Lightsources.org - Learn More

Would you like help choosing and navigating a beamline for your research? Our comprehensive beamline guides list synchrotrons worldwide and their crystallography-related beamlines, which generally perform X-ray diffraction.

These guides help researchers determine the best contacts, how to schedule beamtime, and what sample hardware they need to collect data successfully. Beamlines continually upgrade and improve, so we welcome updates from users and beamline managers.