Cryo-EM wins chem Nobel
http://www.Nature.com/news/cryo-electron-microscopy-wins-chemistry-nobel-1.22738 Key techdev work in ’80s on flash freezing + atomic res. imaging of xtal & unordered samples
Visualizing virus assembly…inside…bacteria
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7473/full/nature12604.html Phase-contrast #cryoET resolves subcellular structures (eg ribosomes)
Cryo-ET determines diff structural snapshots virus during assembly. One tomogram to work out whole pathway.
Wei Dai,
Caroline Fu,
Desislava Raytcheva,
John Flanagan,
Htet A. Khant,
Xiangan Liu,
Ryan H. Rochat,
Cameron Haase-Pettingell,
Jacqueline Piret,
Steve J. Ludtke,
Kuniaki Nagayama,
Michael F. Schmid,
Jonathan A. King
& Wah Chiu
Nature 502, 707–710 (31 October 2013) doi:10.1038/nature12604