I'd suggest:
- Find a dinosaur from my generation who can suck one into a capillary and check diffraction at room T.
- Try using those loops that look like miniature tennis paddles to give the crystal a little more support
- To minimize strain on the crystal when pulling it out of the drop, try to get its long dimension perpendicular to the air-water interface (usually easier said than done).
- Try to find conditions where the crystals don't start to redissolve while you mount them
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>Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:51:58 +0800
>From: CCP4 bulletin board <[log in to unmask]> (on behalf of Prem kumar <[log in to unmask]>)
>Subject: [ccp4bb] Crystal behave funny
>To: [log in to unmask]
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> Hi all,
> I got some Protein + DNA complex crystals (image
> attached) recently.
> They are needle shape some times splitted chromosome
> type crystals. When we pick long needles they bend
> so much than normal crystal but they dont break. The
> small needle dissolve very fast as try to open the
> drop's film. we try to diffract the long needle
> crystals and they diffract up to 20 A resolution.
> Any suggestion how to improve those crystal packing.
> Thanks in advance!
> -Prem
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