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Improved synchrotron sources provide new opportunities for the studying the structure and kinetics of biological materials using non-crystalline diffraction and small angle scattering.
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Irving, T. Bright prospects for biological non-crystalline diffraction. Nat Struct Mol Biol 5 (Suppl 8), 648–650 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/1340
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