Understanding Crystallography - Part 2: From Crystals to Diamond

How do X-rays help us uncover the molecular basis of life?

In the second part of this mini-series, Professor Stephen Curry takes us on a journey into the Diamond Light Source, one of the UK's most expensive and sophisticated scientific facilities.

Generating light brighter than the sun, and hosting a particle accelerator, Diamond is often used to determine the structure of complex molecules. By placing crystalline samples of proteins in the powerful beams of X-rays, scientists can use the data obatined from the generated diffraction patterns to model accurate 3D structures of the protein molecules.

Professor Curry explores the inner workings of the Diamond Light Source to reveal how such facilities are aiding the field of structural biology and continuing the work of the early crystallography pioneers 100 years on.

This film was supported by the Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC).

[aumjp]

This mixes all 3 sciences together, studying proteins relevant in biology and using physics to identify structures at a chemical level. Dope.

[jacobsolanki]

My boi Curry shootin 3s and shootin beams🔥

[CellRus]

Learning about protein crystallography just makes me appreciate the power of maths. I mean without it, I don't think any protein would be visible to us like now. I just thought how crazy it is to mathematically convert a screen of dots into a beautiful stunning 3D picture of a molecule. Amazing!

[TheRoyalInstitution]

How do X-rays help us uncover the molecular basis of life? Stephen Curry heads to the UK's most expensive scientific facility to find out Understanding Crystallography - Part 2: From Crystals to Diamond

[MrBGeonzon]

If i saw this video 10 years ago I would have had a different major.

[andrewpotapenkoff]

I live in amazing time. Each video about progressive science makes me positive about our future.

Even if you are not scientist, just pay attention to new inventions, look at micro and macro cosmos and explore yourself.

[aboika]

Wow, it is a very clear representation of how X-ray crystallography works, and it helped a lot! Many thanks!

[Artifactorfiction]

696 views ... these videos need to be seen by 696, 000 - fantastic technology - wonderful science.

[whoeveriamiam]

subscribing to this channel was a great idea.. this is very interesting

[kevinhevans]

Loved the quality of this video. It does a great job of describing how it works, to someone that has no knowledge of X-ray crystallography.

[Tonjevic]

Sublime video.

How is it that large molecules such as ribosomes can even be crystallised?

They seem so huge and unwieldy that they would just tend to slop together into whatever arrangement that happened to fall.

[BigNick]

This is incredible but it's almost easier to understand how this works today versus how they did it 60 years ago. I can't begin to imagine "solving" these structures without computers or even graphing calculators.

[rrraa]

Thank you, I understand the concept very clearly

[kosmoch]

Really informative and inspiring. Thank you dearly.

[fatemeh]

This video was beneficial to me. Thanks a lot!

[lanqinfang]

ingenius.. protein is actually smaller than the wavelength of light, yet how complex they look

[benamitai]

this is perfectly executed. thanks a lot :)

[anonymousfigure]

Thank you for your wonderfully inspiring work!

[Blakearmin]

Hey, tell the host I said thanks for explaining how you work backwards from the diffraction pattern to the model like he said he was going to.

[mochmursid]

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