291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

870.119 - 894.35 Venki Ramakrishnan

We did the painful way of... producing crystals which would take eight weeks to grow and were tiny. Then you'd have to take them to a synchrotron, these powerful x-ray sources, and hit them with x-rays and then analyze the data. And then eventually, if everything went well, you would get an image. And the first images were quite fuzzy. They were what we call low resolution images.