‘We need a people’s cryo-EM.’ Scientists hope to bring revolutionary microscope to the masses

Publishing date: 2020-02-07

Published on: Science

summary: In 1962 LMB researchers won a Nobel Prize for using x-ray crystallography to decipher the first atomic structures for proteins. One of LMB’s most recent Nobel laureates, Richard Henderson, helped to develop cryo-EM a technique that bypasses the difficult process of forming crystals from proteins. But cryo-EM is a difficult and expensive process. This news piece from Science reports on efforts to automate, improve and democratise the technique.

authors: Eric Hand

link to paper: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/we-need-people-s-cryo-em-scientists-hope-bring-revolutionary-microscope-masses

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