Volume 21, Issue 1 (January 2007)

With regard to their value and qualitative aspects, high-level digital consumer cameras are attractive tools for photomicrography. Their images are comparable with analogue 35 mm film photographs...

A new technique allows a reliable calculation of volume factors and subsequent mass balancing by the quantification of minerals in rock samples using backscatted electron imaging (BSEI) and wavelength-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (WDS) in a microprobe...

The lymphocyte micronucleus test is the most standardized of all cellular biomarkers for genotoxic effects. Until recently, the analysis of micronuclei was done exclusively by visual microscopical inspection but recently great progress has been made in automation...

Multifunctional surfaces in biology and technology often exhibit various combined features such as self-cleaning, mechanical stability, sensing or catalytic properties...

We describe recent applications of electron tomography (ET) for the study of cell secretion. ET revealed a new view of unique secretory organelles in human eosinophils...