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Transmission Electron Microscopy
Transmission electron microscopy is a microscopy technique in which a beam of electrons is transmitted through a specimen to form an image. The specimen is most often an ultrathin section less than 100 nm thick or a suspension on a grid.
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JAN 11, 2024Chemistry & Physics
The fields of quantum information technology and condensed-matter physics just achieved a major milestone as a team of r ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScNOV 29, 2023Microbiology
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Rice University researcher Zachary Wright has discovered a previously unknown compartment inside cellular organelles cal ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 07, 2020Cell & Molecular Biology
Their cells of cephalopods like squid and octopuses can change in incredible ways to create living camouflage.Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 16, 2020Microbiology
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There are three types of muscle tissue in the human body including cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and skeletal muscle. S ...Written By: Sarah HertrichAUG 31, 2015Videos
Electron microscopes can allow you see incredibly small things using a beam of electrons rather than a beam of light. Th ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 16, 2015Videos
Have you ever wondered how a vinyl record worked, or what one looked like under an electron microscope? In this video, y ...Written By: Anthony BouchardMAR 11, 2015Plants & Animals
Chameleons may not be the only creatures on the planet capable of shade shifting, but they're probably the best at it-pa ...Written By: Jennifer Ellis
JAN 11, 2024
Chemistry & Physics
The fields of quantum information technology and condensed-matter physics just achieved a major milestone as a team of r
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
NOV 29, 2023
Microbiology
Clostridioides difficile, often known as C. diff, is a dangerous microbe that can cause serious health problems in the g
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 29, 2023
Drug Discovery & Development
Albicidin is a peptide antibiotic that works as a DNA gyrase inhibitor with bactericidal activity towards fluoroquinolon
...
Written By:
Greta Anne
APR 02, 2022
Microbiology
Typical viruses that we're familiar with need another organism to survive, and tend to have extremely small genomes. But
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 28, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
Though originally thought of as strictly a waste disposal system, extracellular vesicles (EVs) have been shown to have m
...
JAN 29, 2021
Microbiology
An international team reported finding a filamentous microfossil found in South China, shown in this image by Andrew Cza
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 22, 2020
Chemistry & Physics
New research published in the journal Matter describes the development of a new kind of microscopy – this time at
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
DEC 07, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
Rice University researcher Zachary Wright has discovered a previously unknown compartment inside cellular organelles cal
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 07, 2020
Cell & Molecular Biology
Their cells of cephalopods like squid and octopuses can change in incredible ways to create living camouflage.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 16, 2020
Microbiology
Previously known as 2019-nCoV, the virus has a new name: SARS-CoV-2, which is the cause of what's being called COVID-19
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 30, 2018
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have completed a massive project to create a high-resolution map of the adult fruit fly brain.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 18, 2018
Space & Astronomy
A meteorite that landed in the Nubian Desert of Sudan almost a decade ago appears to be stirring up quite a bit of atten
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 11, 2018
Plants & Animals
Fossils often speak volumes about the physical features and lifestyles of some of the world’s earliest-known forms
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 19, 2017
Neuroscience
Picture a lab, with a semi-evil looking scientist cackling about controlling the brain with pulses of light. Sound like
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
APR 02, 2017
Microbiology
In order to map one of the world’s largest viruses, scientists took a DIY approach to build a retrofitted cryo-ele
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
DEC 04, 2016
Plants & Animals
Most of the time, when a very old fossil is found, it’s not easy to get color samples from the fossil because of i
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
APR 01, 2016
Microbiology
A team of researchers announced in the journal Science that they’ve determined the structure of the Zika virus and
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
NOV 11, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
There are three types of muscle tissue in the human body including cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, and skeletal muscle. S
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
AUG 31, 2015
Videos
Electron microscopes can allow you see incredibly small things using a beam of electrons rather than a beam of light. Th
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 16, 2015
Videos
Have you ever wondered how a vinyl record worked, or what one looked like under an electron microscope? In this video, y
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
MAR 11, 2015
Plants & Animals
Chameleons may not be the only creatures on the planet capable of shade shifting, but they're probably the best at it-pa
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis