Cryo-EM could be used to visualize proteins at the atomic level

Cryogenic electron microscopy (Cryo-EM), the electron microscopy technique applied to cryogenically cooled sample, has been used much over the past decade as a reliable imaging technique. Now, researchers from two studies undertaken at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Göttingen, Germany) and the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB) in Cambridge, UK, have made a breakthrough in achieving imaging at the atomic level in Cryo-EM. Currently, visualizing structures such as proteins at such a high resolution so as to better understand their structure in relation to function, is not easily achieved by other standard imaging techniques, such...