The best light microscope can show details that are 0.2µm apart and need a magnification of roughly x1500 so that our eyes can see it - this allows us to see larger cell structures. Electron ...

Cell membranes play a crucial ... of Fribourg (UNIFR), have used cryo-electron microscopy to observe how lipids and proteins ...

The images produced with a cryo-electron microscope can only be as ... known as unroofing can be used to view the membrane cytoskeleton inside the cell. Unroofing involves the mechanical removal ...

Light microscopes use light and mirrors and can see things as small as 400 nanometers. This allows us to get down to the world of the cell ... a leaf surface under a scanning electron microscope.