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 ...

Molecules and ions pass in and out of the cell through tiny openings in the cell wall. Although the holes are too small to be seen with an electron microscope, their size has been measured ...

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

In 2004, fifty years after Novikoff and de Duve observed lysosomes under the electron microscope ... unanswered for many years was: which membrane in the cell gives rise to phagophores?

There are three types of pathways: Caveolae are small invaginations of the cell's plasma membrane. Under the electron microscope, caveolae look to be flask-shape pits about 50-80 nm across.

An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms ...

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.