Is EM dead?

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 126, Issue 20, 2013, Pages 4545-4552

  Knott, Graham ^a   Genoud, Christel ^b,c  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Em; Scanning electron microscopy; Sem; TEM; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

DIAMINOBENZIDINE;

ACCURACY; BIOLOGY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIFFRACTION; ELECTRON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FREEZING; MITOCHONDRION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VACUUM;

ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEM; TEM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; CELLS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON;

EID: 84885776627     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.124123     Document Type: Note

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