The Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation, a nonprofit focused on transforming pediatric cancer care by accelerating research breakthroughs, today announced the 19 recipients of its 2023 research grants.
To overcome the hurdle of two technologies used to determine the structure and function of proteins X-ray crystallography and cryogenic electron microscopy researchers at Stanford University's Schools of Medicine and Engineering and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used a kind of molecular cage to stabilize certain medium-sized proteins so they can be imaged with cryo-EM.