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Rotating Vessels for Growing Protein Crystals

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Rotation would ameliorate adverse effects of gravitation.

Rotating vessels have been proposed as means of growing larger, more nearly uniform protein crystals than would otherwise be possible in the presence of normal Earth gravitation. Heretofore, nonrotating vessels have been used.

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