A tool for scientists that makes the analysis of biomolecular structures faster, easier, and more accessible – and uses cryogenics – is ushering in a new era of research, according to the Nobel Prize committee.
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognized the pioneering work of three scientists, Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson, “for their development of an effective method for generating three-dimensional images of the molecules of life. Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers can now freeze biomolecules mid-movement and portray them at atomic resolution.
This technology has taken biochemistry into a new era, whose breakthrough developments in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) have helped to broaden the use of this technology within the structural biology community.”
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