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Researchers Use CHESS to Map Protein Motion

This slice through the three-dimensional diffuse map shows intense peaks resulting from lattice vibration, as well as cloudy features caused by internal protein motions.

Cornell structural biologists took a new approach to using a classic method of X-ray analysis to capture something the conventional method had never accounted for: the collective motion of proteins. And they did so by creating software to painstakingly stitch together the scraps of data that are usually disregarded in the process.

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To implement the new guidance from Cornell regarding “COVID-19 Update: Conduct of Research”, CHESS user operation ended noon on Monday, March 16th, 2020. User experiments scheduled for March 2020 will not take place.

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