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‘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.