At one time or another, most of us have played with a flipbook, using our thumbs to rapidly flip a series of pictures to ...

As the technology has improved, scientists have also tackled ever more complex biochemical structures, from RNA to ribosomes. The resulting images, like Photo 51, reveal clues about the structures ...

Ribosomes are the sites in a cell in which protein synthesis takes place. Cells have many ribosomes, and the exact number depends on how active a particular cell is in synthesizing proteins.

Scientists use a similar technique to study the ultrafast molecular processes inside cells. By piecing together high-resolution pictures of molecules at different time points, researchers can create a ...

To reconstruct ribosomes’ different conformational states, researchers had to average together many images, which would miss the faster, rarer configurations. As a result, these methods allowed ...