Tightening the focus of subcellular snapshots: Combined approach yields better cell slices for cryoET imaging

Taking images of tiny structures within cells is tricky business. One technique, cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), ...
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A view into the innermost workings of life: Hesse's first scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator inaugurated in at Goethe University

Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) ceremonially commissioned a state-of-the-art cryo plasma-FIB scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator worth more than 5 million euros on Thursday. The ...
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Clear electron microscope images, less damage

Scanning transmission electron microscopy, or STEM, is a powerful imaging technique that enables researchers to study a material’s morphology, composition, and bonding behavior at the angstrom scale.
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New BYU microscopes offer atomic-level imaging, student-led research

Felipe Rivera, director of the microscopy facility at BYU, stands in front of one of the university’s new transmission electron microscopes, which will allow undergraduate students to capture 3D ...

Want to speed brain research? It's all in how you look at it.

To get a better look at brains, Harvard researchers are making microscopes work more like human eyes.
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New SLAC method guides better cell slice preparation for cryo-ET imaging

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