Stanford-SLAC Cryo-EM Facilities

Derek Mendez and Xueli “Sherry” Zheng aim to accelerate drug discovery and improve energy storage.

SLAC scientists develop an approach to better guide the preparation of cell slices for cryogenic-electron tomography imaging.

His visit highlighted the breadth of our world-class research and the people and collaborations that make it possible. A key theme of the day: how SLAC and the National Labs are advancing AI to accelerate discovery.

The microelectronics that power daily life and speed discoveries in science and technology are the focus of a bold new vision to make them more energy efficient and able to operate in extreme environments.

Researchers figured out how to spray and freeze a cell sample in its natural state in milliseconds, helping them capture basic biological processes in unprecedented detail.

Disabling those hinges could be a good strategy for designing vaccines and treatments against a broad range of coronavirus infections.

New SLAC-Stanford Battery Center bridges the gaps between discovering, manufacturing and deploying innovative energy storage solutions. 

Researchers used cryo-EM (left) to discover how a chamber in human cells (right) directs protein folding. 

An extension of the Stanford Research Computing Facility will host several data centers to handle the unprecedented data streams that will be produced by a new generation of scientific projects.

Taking pictures of tiny, flash-frozen things with electrons is revolutionizing biology and technology. SLAC and Stanford host one of the world’s leading facilities for doing cryo-EM research, improving the technology and making it available to researchers across the country.