Nurturing Life Sciences
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#Unit 13. Methods in Biology
Electromagnetic lenses are used to focus a high-velocity electron beam instead of the visible light.
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Thicker sections must be fixed, dehydrated, embedded in plastic, sectioned, and then stained with electron dense heavy metals for TEM.
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For TEM two types of staining is done:
Negative staining
Metal shadowing
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Negative staining- heavy metal coats the grid but is excluded from the regions where the sample has adhered.
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Commonly used heavy metals
Uranyl acetate
Osmium tetraoxide