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Mir for the crystallographers' money

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It is nearly 10 years since the first attempts were made to grow better protein crystals in the low gravity environment of space. Can the enormous cost of these experiments be justified by the results?

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  1. the Fred Hutch -inson Cancer Research Center, 1124 Columbia Street, Seattle, Washington, 98104

    Barry L. Stoddard

  2. the Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Mail Stop 156–29, Pasadena, California, 91125

    Roland K. Strong

  3. Payload Systems, 276 Third Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139

    Anthony Arrott

  4. the Departments of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, Pennsylvania State University, 152 Davey Laboratory, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802, USA

    Gregory K. Farber

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Stoddard, B., Strong, R., Arrott, A. et al. Mir for the crystallographers' money. Nature 360, 293–294 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/360293a0

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