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
• 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
• 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
• The team took samples from two fragments of the Altar Stone and examined the age and chemistry of grains of zircon, apatite, and rutile using optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy, along with isotopic analysis.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024