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New Microscope Reveals Ultrastructure of Cells
An anonymous reader writes "For the first time, there is no need to chemically fix, stain or cut cells in order to study them. Instead, whole living cells are fast-frozen and studied in their natural environment. The new method delivers an immediate 3-D image, thereby closing a gap between conventional microscopic techniques. The new microscope delivers a high-resolution 3-D image of the entire cell in one step. This is an advantage over electron microscopy, in which a 3-D image is assembled out of many thin sections. This can take up to weeks for just one cell. Also, the cell need not be labeled with dyes, unlike in fluorescence microscopy, where only the labeled structures become visible. The new X-ray microscope instead exploits the natural contrast between organic material and water to form an image of all cell structures. Dr. Gerd Schneider and his microscopy team at the Institute for Soft Matter and Functional Materials have published their development in Nature Methods (abstract)."
Now that they have, the world is a little less gay. If it weren't for the excessive gayness on the planet earth we would all have flying cars and time machines by now. But nooo way hosey, the gay coalition blocks these amazing discoveries every chance they get. At one time we were all destined to be driving around in nuclear powered automobiles, but then a monumental pandemic of gayness struck, and we are still struck driving the same automobiles that our grandfathers did. And you know how gay all the old people are. Driving automobile == being gay. You should demand you own airplane / tel-porter now!
-Help stamp out gayness, invent something great today.
without the help of the TSA
Medical Daily is a linkfarm, and Slashdot is linkspamming the world. It was shocking to see a link to the Nature abstract, though - normally I would have to Google that up for myself.
Verdict? Slashdot still sucks, but samzenpus is at least a notch above Timothy.