title: Biological cryo-electron microscopy in China.
abstract: Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) plays an increasingly more important role in structural biology. With the construction of an arm of the Chinese National Protein Science Facility at Tsinghua University, biological cryo-EM has entered a phase of rapid development in China. This article briefly reviews the history of biological cryo-EM in China, describes its current status, comments on its impact on the various biological research fields, and presents future outlook.
authors.affiliation: Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
authors.forename: Hong-Wei
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-6529-5629
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
authors.forename: Jianlin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lei
authors.affiliation: Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Structural Biology, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
authors.forename: Yigong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D020285:Cryoelectron Microscopy / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*
keywords: China; EM methodology; Tsinghua University; cryo-EM; electron microscopy; history; transmission electron microscope