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"Researchers around the world have embraced cryo-EM for its enhanced power and for the myriad possibilities it offers to advance the rational design and evaluation of therapies. In recognition of the importance of this technology to the future of...

"Throughout history, observations of structure, from Hooke’s cells to the beaks of Darwin’s finches, have provided insights necessary to understand how life works. This is particularly true in structural biology, a discipline focused on visualizing life...

To celebrate the new Harvard Cryo-EM Center for Strucutral Biology, HMS hosted the Inagural Symposium on May 30. The day-long event featured some of the world’s most esteemed structural biologists, including two Nobel laureates. Reflecting Harvard’s...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 to Jacques Dubochet of the University of Lausanne, Joachim Frank of Columbia University, and Richard Henderson of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology "for...

"With the creation of the Harvard Cryo-Electron Microscopy Center for Structural Biology in the Longwood Medical Area, Harvard University today launched a pivotal initiative in molecular visualization, which promises remarkable advances in scientists’...

New study reveals key steps in CRISPR-Cas3 function at near-atomic resolution. Featuring Min Luo and Maofu Liao of Harvard Medical School.