Poetry in motion: catching molecules in action

Abstract

Researchers have long sought to `see' proteins and other macromolecules in motion, to better understand their functions. Technological developments, notably advances in serial crystallography, are now making these dreams a reality, heralding a new era of kinetic crystallography.

Keywords

• protein dynamics
• time-resolved crystallography
• serial femtosecond crystallography
• laue diffraction
• editorial