Structural biology: How proteins got their close-up

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Structural biology: How proteins got their close-up

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Mar 1, 2022

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The journey to understanding these critically important molecules, in their thousands of different flavors, began with a chance discovery. Today, after decades of painstaking lab work and dizzying technological leaps, the field of protein science is exploding.

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Mar 1, 2022

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Structural biology: How proteins got their close-up

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