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Electron counting takes microED to the next level

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New data collection methods enable ab initio protein structure determination by micro-electron diffraction for the first time.

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Fig. 1: MicroED pipeline.

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The authors acknowledge funding from the National Institutes of Health (R35 GM144121 to K.D.C. and R35 GM138206 to M.A.H.)

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  2. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

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