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Revolutionary cryo-EM is taking over structural biology

The number of protein structures being determined by cryo-electron microscopy is growing at an explosive rate.
  1. Ewen Callaway
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A revolutionary technique for determining the 3D shape of proteins is booming. Last week, a database that collects protein and other molecular structures determined by cryo-electron microscopy, or cryo-EM, acquired its 10,000th entry.

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Nature 578, 201 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00341-9

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