How to Use crystallography in a Sentence

crystallography

noun
  • Dorothy Hodgkin was a British chemist on the cutting edge of X-ray crystallography.
    — Lauren Kent, CNN, 28 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • Other researchers also use a method called X-ray crystallography to study the virus’s structure.
    — Sophia Chen, Wired, 8 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • X-ray crystallography has produced the lion’s share of protein structures.
    — Ewen Callaway, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The area of X-ray crystallography continues to impact the fields of chemistry, physics and medicine —and is still used to study crystalline atoms.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2023
  • One of her students took the first photo of DNA through X-ray crystallography.
    — Halley Bondy, NBC News, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Requirements to post raw data were already common in other fields of science like genetics and crystallography.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2012
  • To map protein structures, scientists have been using x-ray crystallography since the late 1950s.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 21 Oct. 2020
  • Cao first tried the most common technique for studying the architecture of complex proteins, called X-ray crystallography.
    — Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2014
  • 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
  • In 1953, Franklin used the then-new field of x-ray crystallography to image crystals of DNA.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2019
  • Further advances have brought cryo-EM within reach of resolving single atoms, rivalling x-ray crystallography.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 4 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Building on Bragg's work, other scientists have been awarded Nobel Prizes using x-ray crystallography in their research.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 7 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • To identify the actual structures, researchers typically turn to x-ray crystallography.
    — Byrobert F. Service, science.org, 1 Aug. 2024
  • 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, National Geographic, 31 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • By 2010 McLellan had determined the structure of the postfusion protein using a structural imaging technique called x-ray crystallography.
    — Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2023
  • 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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