Pretty cool, but the examples shown are all gigantic. Having just
spent a frustrating several hours chasing 5 um crystals, I'd give
half my kingdom for a simple way to catch THOSE little buggers (damn
you, surface tension!).
Begin forwarded message:
From: Patrick Shaw Stewart <patr...@douglas.co.uk>
Date: March 27, 2009 8:41:53 AM EDT
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Crystal vacuum cleaner
Reply-To: Patrick Shaw Stewart <patr...@douglas.co.uk>
Jacob
Have you seen the Crystal Catcher system, developed in Japan?
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008APExp...1c7002K
Some of us saw it at a recent IUCr meeting, but I don’t know anyone
who has tried it with their own proteins
Patrick
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