Ground Truths

Another trip to the lab allowed us to collect and preserve crystals from the ground truth experiment grown in the mock MDA.

Dr, Gouaux collects a crystal sample from the control crystals grown in the lab.


Josie prepares the cryogenic preservative. After pulling the crystals out of the solution, they are passed through this preservative to keep them from icing up when they are placed in the liquid nitrogen.


Josie collects a ground truth crystal.


A sample of the selected crystals are packaged and sent to Stanford for diffraction analysis.

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