Pictures Considered #46 by Christoph — This post features electrons, which are among the smallest things possible. There are, of course, even much smaller things than electrons but this blog keeps clear of the quantum realm, most of the time. Yet to make up for the electrons' teensyness – if they could keep still some 4×10^21 would fit into...
Pictures Considered #16 by Elio — It's hard to tell for sure, but it seems to have been a pair of investigators at the University of Southern California, Richard Baker and Daniel Pease, who published a paperin Nature in 1949 showing rather undifferentiated sections of Bacillus megaterium that lack discernible internal details. Interestingly, the very next...
by Elio — In a recent post (The Age of Imaging), I mused about advances in microscopy that are revolutionizing our concept of bacterial cell structure. High on the list of amazing developments is cryoelectron tomography (CET), a technique that allows one to look inside bacterial cells. Flash-freezing cells at very low temperatures...
