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Education Corner: Solving Structures, Enabling Discovery

09/08

For nearly two decades, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Centers for Research in Structural Biology of Infectious Diseases (CRSTAL-ID) have served as a structural biology resource for the infectious disease research community.

The summer RCSB PDB Education Corner highlights some of the CRSTAL-ID research successes that demonstrate both the breadth of science made possible by this model and the lasting impact the centers have made on structural biology and infectious disease research.

Learn more about the Solving Structures, Enabling Discovery: The Impact of the CRSTAL-ID Centers in this article by by Sandhya Subramanian, Karla J. F. Satchell, Alfa Herrera, and Krystle J. McLaughlin.

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