The research of the department focuses on the development of cryo -
electron tomography which is widely seen now as a method of unique potential for visualizing macromolecular complexes in their functional cellular context.
Not exact matches
Doctoral student Florian Vogel and Dr. Nelia Wanderka from the HZB Institute of Applied Materials have elegantly combined two methods to accomplish this: transmission
electron microscopy (TEM) and atom probe
tomography (APT),
which they carried out in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Münster.
Electron tomography is related to computed
tomography,
which has become indispensable in research and clinical studies.
O'Shea's team called the technique,
which combines their chromatin dye with
electron - microscope
tomography, ChromEMT.
What's more, the technique used to create the reconstruction, atomic
electron tomography (
which is like an incredibly high - resolution CT scan), lays the foundation for precisely mapping the atomic composition of other useful nanoparticles.