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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2021🎓 HS🔄 Round 8#️⃣ Question 18🌟 BONUS✍️ Short Answer

Researchers in the Drennan group are visualizing metalloproteins and metalloenzymes by combining X-ray crystallography and a technique where frozen samples are vitrified in liquid ethane, have electron beams passed through them, and then imaged by aligning and sub-volume averaging many low-resolution frames of individual proteins. What is this technique called?

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