% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence
% of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older.
% Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or
% “biber”.
@ARTICLE{Sachse:1050650,
author = {Sachse, Carsten},
title = {{C}ryogenic {STEM} of thick biological specimens},
journal = {Nature methods},
volume = {22},
number = {10},
issn = {1548-7091},
address = {London [u.a.]},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
reportid = {FZJ-2026-00402},
pages = {2015 - 2016},
year = {2025},
abstract = {A cryogenic scanning transmission electron microscopy
(STEM) approach for analyzing thick biological specimens
expands the reach of cryo-electron microscopy.In the past
decade, structure determination and visualization of
biological macromolecules by cryogenic electron microscopy
(cryo-EM) has become one of the most popular tools in
structural biology1. The power of cryo-EM has relied on the
capabilities of transmission electron microscopy (TEM),
which involves image formation in the microscope through
electromagnetic lenses followed by comprehensive
single-particle image processing. A few thousand
well-defined particles can be sufficient to generate a
resolution allowing reliable atomic model building. Despite
the power of the established cryo-TEM approach, biological
specimens can be too small, too heterogeneous or too thick
and thus fall short of the commonly achieved resolutions.
Moreover, determining biological structures at this
resolution within the native cellular environment has only
been possible in thin focused ion beam milled sections of
approximately 100 nm thickness for very large and abundant
macromolecular complexes such as the ribosome. In this
issue, Yu et al.2 propose an alternative approach for
imaging thick specimens that is based on cryogenic scanning
transmission electron microscopy (STEM) followed by image
processing, a method they call tilt-corrected bright-field
STEM (tcBF-STEM).},
cin = {ER-C-3},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)ER-C-3-20170113},
pnm = {5241 - Molecular Information Processing in Cellular Systems
(POF4-524) / 5352 - Understanding the Functionality of Soft
Matter and Biomolecular Systems (POF4-535)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5241 / G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5352},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.1038/s41592-025-02818-9},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1050650},
}