For more than 20 years, Brian Kobilka worked to create a portrait of a key cell receptor. Sometimes, the slow, steady approach wins.
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Lizzie Buchen is a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California.
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Buchen, L. Cell signalling: It's all about the structure. Nature 476, 387–390 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/476387a
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