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Biochemist John Kendrew working on a structural model of a protein at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, UK, in the 1960s. Credit: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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Nature 630, 813-816 (2024)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02085-2
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