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A new generation of brilliant X-ray laser sources will be coming online within the next few years. Researchers now show that using these lasers to determine the structures of single molecules should be possible.
Some researchers say an eighty-year-old statistical method can make setting up and analyzing high-throughput screens and large-scale experiments faster and more efficient. So why are more biologists not flocking to use this tool?