How to Use microscopy in a Sentence

microscopy

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• Prions are too small to be seen with normal microscopy.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Oct. 2023
• To find out, the authors set the state of the device, removed the MoTe2 layer, and then subjected it to electron microscopy.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 2018
• Electron microscopy revealed that when hair pushes against weak points on the metal blade, the steel chips apart.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2020
• To view these tiny optics, researchers use ion microscopy.
  — Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2018
• At one time, coverslips, mirrors and lenses ruled the world of microscopy.
  — Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2018
• The team used electron microscopy to learn about the chemical composition of the food residue.
  — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
• Using a very advanced form of microscopy called cryo-EM, the team was able to observe the bacteria in great detail.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2023
• As the following images show, microscopy is now both art and science, a blend of data and design.
  — Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2018
• The technique makes use of expanding brain tissue and what’s called lattice light-sheet microscopy.
  — Alison MacKey, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2019
• In ​cryo-electron microscopy, the next step could be animation.
  — David Gauthier-Villars, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2017
• Newer techniques like the electron microscopy used by Subramaniam can be faster, but the process is still far from easy.
  — Tom Simonite, Wired, 10 Jan. 2022
• Of course, the subject possibilities are as diverse as all of history, from the Great Wall of China to the microscopy of Leeuwenhoek.
  — al, 15 Apr. 2020
• Each year, Nikon runs a microscopy competition honoring the best images of all things small.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2018
• Now, a new preprint paper published last week revealed the strange and alien shapes of those giant virus using electron microscopy.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 1 Aug. 2023
• Electron microscopy and X-ray imaging of the result revealed that the polymer decorated the insides of the tube structures.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Apr. 2023
• Scrubbings are rinsed into a tray, then poured into a storage vial for microscopy and analysis.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
• With special stains and microscopy, both parasites look like little rings inside red blood cells.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2023
• And this is where Bill Herron says Mary would probably have used chemical microscopy.
  — Sarah Wyman, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
• Electron microscopy, one of the common tools to visualize such minute structures, doesn’t work well with chromatin, O’Shea said.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 July 2017
• Lehmann, whose studies using advanced microscopy and spectroscopy were among the first to reveal the absence of humus, has become the concept’s debunker-in-chief.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Aug. 2021
• Cryo-electron microscopy, usually called cryo-EM for short, is the brainchild of their contributions and those of their colleagues.
  — Quanta Magazine, 4 Oct. 2017
• This new study used some of the advances in imaging techniques that have emerged in the almost three decades since the stick’s discovery—micro-CT scanning, 3D models, and 3D microscopy—to take a closer look.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 19 July 2023
• The team used electron microscopy, a technique that sends beams of electrons through a particle, projecting an image.
  — Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 26 June 2018
• This is not the company's first foray into smartphone microscopy.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2019
• Traction force microscopy is a multistage process that is time consuming to perform.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2021
• Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is the technology behind many of the images in the lab's calendars and exhibits.
  — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2017
• In addition to microscopy and X-ray analyses, Gillreath-Brown reconstructed exact replicas of the tool and used them to tattoo pig skin.
  — Krista Langlois, National Geographic, 28 Feb. 2019
• Micro-CT scans combines microscopy and X-ray imaging to illustrate the inner world of tiny objects in intense detail.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2018
• While most of you may know Nikon as a camera company, microscopy is a sibling of photography in many ways beyond the involvement of high-end lenses.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2018
• Still, with advancements like confocal fluorescence microscopy, experts are readier than ever to give them a look once more are found.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024