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), shoots electrons through a frozen sample. The images formed by the electrons ...
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Imaging living cells: First scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator inaugurated

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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 ...
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Super-resolution microscopes showcase the inner lives of cells

Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells ...
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The Expansion of Volume Electron Microscopy

With the inventions of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in 1931 and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) shortly after in 1937, scientists gained an unprecedented ultrastructural view of the ...