Having realized that proteins usually do their jobs by combining to form transient complexes, biologists are queuing up to study these structures using a powerful electron-microscopy technique. Alison Abbott reports.
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Abbott, A. The society of proteins. Nature 417, 894–896 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417894a
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