Throughout history, observations of structure, from Robert Hooke’s cells to the beaks of Charles Darwin’s finches, have been fundamental to our ability to understand how life works.
This is particularly true in structural biology, a discipline dedicated to visualizing the molecular machines and components that underlie almost all of life’s processes. The efforts of structural biologists have spawned vast and diverse fields of research and, with the discovery of the structure of DNA, helped launch the modern era of biomedicine.
