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Got It Down Cold: Cryo-Electron Microscopy Named Method of the Year

By IRP Staff Blogger

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Reblogged from the NIH Director's Blog.

In the quest to find faster, better ways of mapping the structure of proteins and other key biological molecules, a growing number of researchers are turning to an innovative method that pushes the idea of a freeze frame to a whole new level:  cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM).