So, a research group developed one. The new method uses interferometry to capture extremely high-resolution visualizations of millions of molecules moving across viscous gels or a plasma membrane.

The Tomocube holotomography microscope delivers quantitative, nanoscale, real-time, 3-D images of individual living cells quickly and simply without any sample preparation. The holotomography ...

One of the team's latest advances is a method called ultrastructural membrane expansion microscopy (umExM), which they described in the Feb. 12 issue of Nature Communications.

The outcome is a three-dimensional image of the cell's plasma membrane arrangement, complete with perspectives of the barrier inside. By creating a very precise platinum-carbon duplicate of the ...

Furthermore, each cilia had a surface area of 3.05 μm 2, which is about 200 times less than the cell's plasma membrane.

John G. Bluemink, Siegfried W. De Laat, New Membrane Formation during Cytokinesis in Normal and Cytochalasin B-Treated Eggs of Xenopus laevis: I. Electron Microscope Observations, The Journal of Cell ...

With that, the researchers observed the ultrathin cut section of the outermost layer of larva C with a transmission electron microscope, and found that a thin membrane with the thickness of 50 ‒ 100 ...

The internal photosynthetic membranes of a photosynthetic bacterium, Rhodopseudomonas viridis, have been studied with a variety of electron microscope techniques. The membranes are composed of a sheet ...