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Is cryo-EM taking over structural biology?

Published on 11 February, 2020

This news story in Nature maps the revolutionary technique’s eventful journey in the structural biology field since 2012-13. Ewen Callaway, on the occasion of the submission of the 10,000th cryo-EM structure in the EMDB, spoke to LMB scientists Richard Henderson and Sjors Scheres. Richard estimates that by 2024, more protein structures will be determined by cryo-EM than by X-ray crystallography. More…