Striemer and his colleagues stumbled onto their silicon filters while trying to prepare thin samples to
study under an electron microscope.
Not exact matches
The researchers
studied lung samples from a female Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri,
under an
electron microscope.
Previously such
studies could only be achieved by X-ray crystallography, but using the
electron microscope will allow us to tackle protein complexes which no one has been able to crystallise, and to do this
under conditions which are much closer to those in the human body.»
But earlier
studies of astroviruses — so called because they look like stars
under an
electron microscope — had suggested that they were choosier about their hosts.
Paul Stamets first had the idea of such a network in the 1970s, while
studying fungi
under an
electron microscope.