Upon hearing about electron microscopy, one of your classmates wants to go to the Electron Microscopy Core Facility at UC Davis to use transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to make a movie of flagellar movement in an individual bacterial cell. What problem might your classmate run into?
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TEM requires extremely thin samples, typically less than 100 nanometers thick, which can be challenging to achieve for biological samples like bacterial cells. Show more…
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