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More Than Two Years in, National Cryo-EM Facility is Gaining Ground

Published: 10/8/2019Tagged:
Ulrich Baxa, senior microscopist at the National Cryo Electron Microscopy Facility, has seen the facility grow to house two additional microscopes, including the FEI Glacios (white-and-black cabinet, left of image).

FREDERICK, Md. -- Ulrich Baxa, Ph.D., and his team are helping to move a microscope the size of a minivan.

The behemoth, a Titan Krios, is making the 29-mile trek from a Gaithersburg, Maryland, laboratory to its new home at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research. It’s a highly-sensitive, $7 million device being relocated across a greater metropolitan area with some of the worst traffic in the United States.

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