How excited has this article about the Nobel Prize for Chemistry 2017 made me?
It explains the breakthroughs that have been made in Chemistry after the development of the electron microscope, since 1975 when Joachim Frank made electron microscopy applicable to reveal sharp three-dimensional structures from twodimensional images.
We have long been past the age of 2D in medical and biochemical imaging, but their discovery and develoment of cryo-electronmicroscopy for 3D images is clearly worth this Nobel Prize.
With the winners’ technique, enzymes are frozen in a water medium after being cooled instantly, making it possible for reagents along with the 3D structure of the enzyme to be visualized by the electron microscope. This will make it possible to target for example pharmaceuticals more directly at the target site of an enzyme, making amazing drugs to heal illnesses.
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