One disease for which cryo-EM could help with drug development is synovial sarcoma, a rare cancer that affects soft tissue around joints such as the knee, wrist or ankle. The abnormal protein that ...

Specific protein receptors in the brain play a vital role in how neurons slow down or stop firing, making them targets for ...

Although scientists can learn a lot from cell culture and animal models, they cannot truly substitute for all parts of the ...

Our expertise in EM sample preparation and imaging allows us to support biomedical and translational research. With our cryogenic electron microscopy, or cryo-EM, technologies and services, the core ...

Certain proteins found in the human brain have long been known to be critical to controlling how brain cells communicate with each other.

Cryo-EM leverages ultra-powerful microscopes to capture ... 3-D structure of the muscle acetylcholine receptor. Since human ...