This may look like Salvador Dali's Mae West Lips Sofa, but it is a colourised scanning electron microscope image of a diatom - a tiny single-celled marine creature invisible to the naked eye.

Diatoms, or microscopic algae ... For 34 years, she has specialized in using the center's scanning electron microscope to learn more about fish development, harmful algal blooms, the effects ...

Using transmission electron microscopy, the team found that salinity affects the structure of the diatom's polysaccharide ...

The diatom collection at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History is drawn from a variety of sources. It contains uncleaned and cleaned material, as well as permanent slides and material ...

Indeed, they’re as ubiquitous in microbiology research as lab mice are in human-health studies. A diatom under an electron microscope. Credit: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research ...

The silicate framework of a diatom does not conduct electricity. For a scanning electron microscope image it would therefore have to be coated, which can result in details of the structure not ...

Diatoms are single-celled organisms found ... atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and dark field microscopy. They then used these images to inform a series of models that the ...

To the uninitiated, it is an overwhelming mix of intimidating Latinized names and dramatic electron microscope photographs that portray the diatoms in all their infinitesimal glory. To Enache ...