It is nearly 10 years since the first attempts were made to grow better protein crystals in the low gravity environment of space. Can the enormous cost of these experiments be justified by the results?
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Stoddard, B., Strong, R., Arrott, A. et al. Mir for the crystallographers' money. Nature 360, 293–294 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/360293a0
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