Cryo-imaging gives deeper view of thick biological materials

Electron microscopy is an exceptional tool for peering deep into the structure of isolated molecules. But when it comes to ...

Cryo-EM reveals how protein complexes maintain bacterial outer membrane defenses

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have successfully applied cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) to ...
Hackaday

Cryo-EM: Freezing Time To Take Snapshots Of Myosin And Other Molecular Systems

Using technologies like electron microscopy (EM) it is possible to capture molecular mechanisms in great detail, but not when these mechanisms are currently moving. The field of cryomicroscopy ...
AZoNano

Using Cryo-EM to Analyze Batteries

Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a variant of electron microscopy that uses cryogenically cooled samples that have been ‘flash frozen’. Cryo-EM methods have proved revolutionary in the life ...
GEN

Cryo-EM Incites a “Resolution Revolution,” Rousing Drug Discovery

Getting a detailed look at human proteins is often key to designing drugs that target them. For decades, drug developers have typically relied on X-ray crystallography for that purpose—a technique ...
Purdue University

Software startup Molecular Intelligence improves structuring molecules from cryo-EM image data

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University experts in the College of Science and Rosen Center for Advanced Computing have launched Molecular Intelligence, a software company whose solutions help ...
Business Wire

ByteDance Invests in the Cryo-EM & AI Powered Biotech Startup Shuimu BioSciences

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ByteDance has pitched into life sciences. Last October, this internet tech giant invested in the biotech startup Shuimu BioSciences (Shuimu), a company leveraging the power of ...