/ Cryo-Electron Microscope Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en /blog/new-technology-solves-mystery-respiration-tetrahymena Tetrahymena, a tiny single celled-organism, turns out to be hiding a surprising secret: it’s doing respiration – using oxygen to generate cellular energy – differently from other organisms such as plants, animals or yeasts. The discovery, published March 31 in Science, highlights the power of new techniques in structural biology and reveals gaps in our knowledge of a major branch of the tree of life. March 31, 2022 - 3:05pm Andy Fell /blog/new-technology-solves-mystery-respiration-tetrahymena /news/new-cryo-electron-microscope-powers-biological-sciences-discovery-0 <p>A new era in structural biology is coming to 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis, and it is already yielding discoveries.&nbsp;</p> <p>It’s called cryoelectron microscopy, or cryo-EM, and it allows biologists to capture three-dimensional movies of biological molecules down to the scale of single atoms.&nbsp;</p> February 11, 2020 - 5:06pm Andy Fell /news/new-cryo-electron-microscope-powers-biological-sciences-discovery-0