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Powerful microscopy technique brings proteins into focus
Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) as a technology has become more important because the field that it revolutionised – structural biology – has become more important. The international scientific community had this rise in fortunes, so to speak, acknowledged when the Nobel … Continue reading
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Tagged ACE2, covalent bonds, cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-EM, direct electron detector, elastic scattering, Falcon 4, field emission gun, GABA, inelastic scattering, Joachim Frank, kinetic energy, mouse apoferritin, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, novel coronavirus, sampling frequency, signal-to-noise ratio, structural biology, Thermo Fisher Scientific, X-ray crystallography
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Before seeing, there are the ways of imaging
When May-Britt Moser, Edvard Moser and John O’Keefe were awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine “for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain”, there was a noticeable uptick in the number of … Continue reading
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Tagged charge coupled device, CMOS, cryo-electron microscopy, detective quantum efficiency, direct electron detector, epitaxy, eukaryotic ribosomes, phtographic film, scintillator, skipper CCD
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