Researchers who work with bacteriophages -- viruses that eat bacteria -- had a pleasant and potentially very important surprise after treating samples to view under an electron microscope: they had ...

When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And when you’ve got a scanning electron microscope, everything must look like a sample that would be really, really interesting ...

SEM stands for scanning electron microscope. The SEM is a microscope that uses electrons instead of light to form an image. Since their development in the early 1950's, scanning electron microscopes ...

After treating samples of what are informally called phages so they could be viewed alive under an electron microscope, the ...

This means it can show us objects so tiny that they are invisible to the naked eye and even to many other types of microscopes ... sample stability and preservation under these conditions. The samples ...

A scanning electron microscope (SEM) allows one to see well beyond the powers of the naked eye. It can, for instance, provide details or reveal history about the composition and formation of rocks, ...

The Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopy Unit provides solutions for imaging and analysis at the nanoscale. The unit houses two scanning electron microscopes, two scanning probe microscopes and ...

While preparing slides to be examined under a powerful microscope, a team of McMaster researchers who frequently work with ...

The Electron Microscopy Facility in Chelsea brings together a combination of instrumentation and expertise that supports the determination of three-dimensional protein complexes structures by ...

A new technology to continuously place individual atoms exactly where they are needed could lead to new materials for devices that address critical needs for the field of quantum computing and ...

Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) are two closely related imaging techniques used in material science, nanotechnology, and biology for ...