Cryo-electron microscopy
Health & Medicine
Killing the malaria parasite by blocking its recycling system
An international collaboration has developed a new drug candidate that stops the malaria parasite from breaking down waste, resulting in fatal ‘molecular constipation’ and hope for new treatments
Health & Medicine
Podcast
Molecules in motion
Why Cryo-EM, or speed-freezing molecules to create 3D images that can diagnose human cell behaviour, is taking the structural biology world by storm
Health & Medicine
Exposing malaria’s atomic machinery
Scientists have used atomic level imaging to reveal for the first time exactly how an important malaria strain invades the blood, providing a design guide for a vaccine or drug