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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">We are pleased to announce our launching of the Stanford-SLAC Cryo-EM Center (<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">S</span></span><sup class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class="">2</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class="">C</span><sup class=""><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class="">2</span></sup><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class="">). </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">The
missions of this Center are:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">to provide access to state-of-the-art cryo-EM instruments for data collection towards atomic resolution structure determination of biochemically purified single particles, and</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li><li style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; background-color: white; vertical-align: baseline; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">
<span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">to enable scientists across the nation to become independent cryo-EM investigators.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></li></ol>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">More
information of our service can be found from </span><a href="https://cryoem.slac.stanford.edu/s2c2/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">https://cryoem.slac.stanford.edu/s2c2/</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class="">.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: white;" class="">Center Co-Directors: Wah Chiu, Britt Hedman, Michael Schmid, Georgios Skiniotis</span><o:p class=""></o:p></p>
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