How to Use microscopy in a Sentence

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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
  • 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
  • Now, scientists have figured out how to use atomic force microscopy (AFM) to detect bladder cancer in urine samples.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 10 Dec. 2018
  • An Italian team had hoped to make history by using high-tech tools — electron microscopy, spectroscopy and micro x-rays — to reveal the cellular structure of one of the world’s oldest reptiles.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024

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