Tag: cryo-electron microscopy
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Posted on July 7, 2023
Viral Copy Machine Revealed
RNA viruses, such as the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, jump into a life-and-death race the moment they infect a cell. These viruses have only […]
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Posted on August 2, 2022
Alum Helps Sustain ‘Another Level of Molecular Clarity’
Less than a decade ago, UW researchers began to gather and assemble the components of a powerful, advanced imaging technology called cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) […]
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Posted on February 25, 2021
A Cold, Hard Look at Macromolecules
At its most basic level, it takes pictures. For biochemistry professor Elizabeth Wright, that’s the scaled-down explanation of cryogenic electron microscopy, or cryo-EM. But […]