Pulsed-electron illumination does not reduce beam damage for imaging biological macromolecules
Vishal Kumar, Julika Radecke, Chinmaya KV, Inayathulla Mohammed, Ricardo Guerrero-Ferreira, Daniel Harder, Dimitrios Fotiadis, Henning Stahlberg
This study investigates whether pulsed electron beams reduce radiation damage in cryo-EM and finds no significant difference compared to conventional illumination.
Nature Communications · Jun 17, 2026Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology