Plant cells without walls, known as protoplasts, are very fragile, and it has been difficult to keep them alive under a ...

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 ...

The facility has an FEI Morgagni transmission electron microscope with an AMT digital camera system. The TEM was purchased under a National Science Foundation grant for $330,000 with Owen as the ...

Just like our pupils, which react to varying degrees of light exposure with dilation or constriction, organelles in plant ...

There's three types of microscope: light, like this one here, and two types of electron microscopes ... no bigger than a grain of rice. Plant cells crammed with chloroplasts.