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ReviewIUCrJ2026

Cryo-EM: the revolution continues.

Sriram Subramaniam, Werner Kühlbrandt, Richard Henderson

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Review in IUCrJ, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Sriram SubramaniamDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z3, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4231-4115
Werner KühlbrandtDepartment of Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt 60438, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2013-4810
Richard HendersonMRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge CB2 0QH, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-1444-0528

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The near-universal adoption of electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) by structural and cell biologists has led to exponential growth of the field, especially over the last two decades, with a doubling in the number of deposited electron-microscopy density maps every 2.5 years. This exponential growth has changed in recent years to become linear. Cryo-EM methods are now able to contribute to our structural understanding of biological complexity ranging from atomic resolution maps of assemblies of multiprotein complexes to in situ investigation of protein structures in the context of intact cells, snapshots of multiple conformations and insights into fundamental chemical mechanisms underlying biological function. Combined with dramatic advances in artificial intelligence, the increasing democratization and implementation of cryo-EM appears poised to drive a new revolution in digital biology.

Indexed as

Cryoelectron MicroscopyArtificial IntelligenceHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedImaging, Three-Dimensional3D reconstruction and image processingadvances in microscope hardwareautomationelectron tomographysingle-particle cryo-EMstructural biology

Identifiers

PMID42258316
PMCPMC13324647

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