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Commentary

Pushing crystallography's frontiers through quantum mechanics

This article is part of a focused issue presenting articles on Quantum Crystallography from various IUCr journals in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the

Commentary

Microcrystals in structural biology: small samples, big insights

Microcrystals powering modern structure determination: from X-rays to electrons. Traditional macromolecular crystallography (MX) compared with serial crystallography at X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) and synchrotrons, and MicroED using a transmission electron microscope.

Commentary

Peptide bonds strike back

Protein structure prediction and design has profoundly changed biological research in general and structural biology in particular.

Awards and prizes

Early-Career Insights: Lessons from BCA 2025 in Leeds

Attending the BCA 2025 Spring Meeting in Leeds was a very memorable experience for me as a young researcher.

Feature article

Advancing African Science: Launch of the African Light Source Strategic Reports

African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and African Light Source (AfLS) Foundation sign a Memorandum of Understanding during the 15th AAS General Assembly and Conference in Abuja, Nigeria, on December 11, 2024. Seated left to right: Lise Korsten, President, AAS; Simon H.