Transmission Electron Microscopy on Soft Biological Structures

5 TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY ON SOFT BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES [Pg.192]

Transmission electron microscopy is an imaging technique that uses differences in transmission of electrons through a thin layer of material to produce an image. This technique is widely used in the biological sciences as well as increasingly in materials science. The beauty of using electron microscopy is that the technique can be employed to image structures much smaller than optical techniques will allow (i.e., below the optical diffraction limit). [Pg.192]

FIGURE 6.23 Transmission electron microscopic image of F-actin filaments stained with uranyl acetate and packed closely together into a bundle. The inset image shows a detailed blowup of the bundle demonstrating the close-packed structure. [Pg.192]