Sentences with phrase «like electron microscopy»

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Five years ago, using a lower - resolution form of electron microscopy in which the protein is visualized in the presence of negative stain, Whelan's team was able to detect at low resolution a structure that looked like a doughnut with three globular domains.

Over the last half - century, protein structure data from imaging techniques like X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy has mounted, and protein structure databases store at - the - ready information on sequencing and structure.

«We do not need to see down to the atomic scale, like many high - powered electron microscopy methods offer,» Deb said.

The traditional methods used in materials science analysis, like high - powered electron microscopy and spectroscopy, do not combine chemical insights with the spatial resolution of IR imaging, the researchers said, so they can only provide average chemical measurements.

Much like in an old tube television where a beam of electrons moves over a phosphor screen to create images, the new microscopy technique works by scanning a beam of electrons over a sample that has been coated with specially engineered quantum dots.

They used a type of atomic force microscopy, in which a vibrating needle - like tip is scanned over a surface, and differences in vibrational frequency due to the presence of electrons below are recorded at different spots.

Neurobiologist Bernd Knoll at the University of Tubingen in Germany and his collaborators used electron microscopy to picture this neuron's cobweb - like cytoskeleton (its interior scaffolding).

Electron microscopy revealed that the extra hair cells were divided into inner and outer hair cells, just like the normal ones, and they made the same proteins.

(Left) Representative reference - free 2D class averages of negative - stain electron microscopy (EM) images of the uncleaved BG505 gp140 and the native - like BG505 SOSIP.664 trimers.

Fourth, the finding of intranuclear inclusions in diseased tissues, as well as direct visualization of adenoviral - like particles (TMAdV) in lung alveoli by electron microscopy (Figs. 1D - 2 to 1D - 4), support a primary role for TMAdV in the pathogenesis of tissue injury in affected monkeys.

Relief from this dire situation might come from unexpected sources, like the technology honoured by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017: cryo - electron microscopy, or cryo - EM.

Because electron microscopy requires objects to be dried and flattened, the researchers used a fluorescence - based imaging technique called â $ œDNA PAINTâ $ to visualize the jungle - gym - like structures in solution.

Electron microscopy had also given researchers a glimpse of the tiny bubble - like containers called synaptic vesicles that hold thousands of molecules of neuro - transmitter close to the pre-synaptic membrane.

Inside the ALH84001 carbonates, McKay spotted odd features that resembled very small worm - like fossils, so he asked Thomas - Keprta to look at them more closely with electron microscopy.

Dietmar Riedel, head of electron microscopy facilities at the Max Planck Institute in Goettingen says: «It was really challenging to visualize the cable - like structures.