Resumen de How Cryo-EM became so hot

Yifan Cheng, Robert M. Glaeser, Eva Nogales

• The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, and Richard Henderson for “developing cryoelectron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.” Achieving this goal, which required innovation, persistence, and uncommon physical insight, has broadened horizons for structural studies in molecular and cell biology.