Mini-beam collimator enables microcrystallography experiments on standard beamlines

The high-brilliance X-ray beams from undulator sources at third-generation synchrotron facilities are excellent tools for solving crystal structures of important and challenging biological macromolecules and complexes. However, many of the most important structural targets yield crystals that are too small or too inhomogeneous for a ;standard' beam from an undulator source, approximately 25-50 microm (FWHM) in the vertical and 50-100 microm in...