Tag - electron microscopy

New cryo-electron microscope produces first beam

The cryo-electron microscope installed on the Imperial College London Hammersmith Campus produces its first beam, coinciding, fittingly, with the award of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Franck and Richard Henderson, "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution."

New paper on Mcm2–7 double-hexamer assembly and function

Sun, J.*, Fernandez-Cid, A.*, Riera, A.*, Tognetti, S., Yuan, Z., Stillman, B.†, Speck, C.†, Li, H.† (2014). Structural and mechanistic insights into Mcm2–7 double-hexamer assembly and function. Genes & Development 28, 2291-2303.
*Shared first authorship, †Corresponding authors
Abstract | Biomedical Picture of the Day |