The Nobel prize in chemistry 2017 steel Swiss Jacques Dubose, the Briton Richard Henderson and American scientist Joachim Frank. Scientists will receive his honorary award for the development of a method cryoelectron microscopy. According to a press release of the Nobel Committee, the scientists simplifies and improves the visualization of biomolecules. Cryoelectron microscopy opens a new era in biochemistry.
The fact that informed to consider living biomolecules was very difficult because of their mobility, which created difficulties in their study. However, the development of cryoelectron microscopy makes all the difference. Now scientists can instantly freeze biomolecules in motion and to observe the processes that were previously impossible to consider.
The discovery is important for understanding the chemistry of life, and for the development of pharmaceuticals.
The award to Richard Henderson (University of Cambridge, UK), Joachim Frank (Columbia University, USA) and Jacques Dubose (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) will be awarded on 10 December in Stockholm.
