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‘It opens up a whole new universe’: Revolutionary microscopy technique sees individual atoms for first time

Cryo-electron microscopy breaks a key barrier that will allow the workings of proteins to be probed in unprecedented detail.
  1. Ewen Callaway
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A game-changing technique for imaging molecules known as cryo-electron microscopy has produced its sharpest pictures yet — and, for the first time, discerned individual atoms in a protein.

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Nature 582, 156-157 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01658-1

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