Cool microscopy takes 2017 chemistry Nobel

A golden image of the Nobel Prize decorates the front of the Science Museum in Singapore

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Cryo-electron microscopy developed by Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson has transformed biochemistry

Just three years after super-resolution fluorescence microscopy another microscopy technique – cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) – has just been propelled into the limelight with the 2017 chemistry Nobel prize. Dubochet, Frank and Henderson developed a method that made it possible to see the molecules of life for the first time as three-dimensional structures at atomic resolution.