Structural physiology of distinctive water channels elucidated by cryo-EM

Recent advances in single-particle cryo-electron microscopy have enabled a deeper understanding of the structural diversity and higher-order organization of aqua­porin complexes. These insights have important implications for disease biology and drug discovery.

A picture is worth a thousand diffraction spots: using photometry and computer vision to perform rapid high-throughput sample-versatile serial crystallography

Computer vision algorithms are employed in situ to locate crystal targets for small-mol­ecule fixed-target crystallography. This methodology is shown to be significantly faster and of comparable data quality to previously published methods.

Phase relationships in homoleptic com­plexes of XeF₂

The com­pounds [M(XeF₂)₆][AF₆]₂, where M = Cu or Zn and A = As or Sb, contain unusual homoleptic com­plexes of XeF₂ which form a series of different phases under varying conditions of tem­per­a­ture and pressure. The phases are related to the CdCl₂ aristotype and are connected through symmetry-lowering reorientations of the cations and anions.

High-throughput inclined scanning three-dimensional X-ray diffraction microscopy via dual line–beam X-point scanning

We present a dual line–beam X-point scanning method for inclined scanning three-dimensional X-ray diffraction microscopy that significantly reduces measurement time while providing three-dimensional orientation maps com­parable to those ob­tained by conventional point–beam raster scanning.

Atomic structure and formation mechanism of a newly discovered charge density wave in the m = 2 monophosphate tungsten bronze

A charge density wave (CDW) instability is discovered in the m = 2 monophosphate tungsten bronze, with an incommensurate modulation q = 0.245b* + 0.02c* appearing at 290 K and locking in to the commensurate vector q = 0.25b* at 130 K. Diffraction, resistivity and diffuse/inelastic X-ray scattering jointly establish the transition mechanism, showing that lattice distortions dominate while the electronic CDW is only weakly coupled to the structural reorganization.

Continuous invariant-based asymmetries of periodic crystals qu­antify deviations from higher symmetry

New continuous invariant-based asymmetries quantify deviations of any periodic crystal from its closest higher-symmetry neighbour where all molecules are geometrically equivalent.

Additive-driven microwave crystallization of tyramine polymorphs and salts: a quantum crystallography perspective. Corrigendum

The article by Grabowski et al. [(2025), IUCrJ, 12, 403–416] is corrected.