#RAZOR: Revolutionary microscopy
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Cryogenic Electron Microscopy, a technique for imaging biological molecules, has recently broken resolution records to enable visualization of the individual atoms that make up proteins for the first time. Frankie McCamley visits the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge to find out more about the resolution revolution.
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