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Chilled proteins and 3-D images: The cryo-electron microscopy technology that just won a Nobel Prize

  • Written by Melanie Ohi, Research Associate Professor, U-M Life Sciences Institute and and Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, U-M Medical School, University of Michigan
imageCryo-electron microscopy resolution continues to improve.Veronica Falconieri, Sriram Subramaniam, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, CC BY-NC

Many people will never have heard of cryo-electron microscopy before the announcement that Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson had won the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry...

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