The process is still far from foolproof, however, seeing as how an increase in the microscope's resolution requires an equal boost in radiation -- all of which is fatal to the insects.
The bending creates a lensing effect in the same way that light is bent through glass or plastic in a microscope or your eyeglasses.
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But, realizing that they needed better manipulators in the microscope, they put the atom down and spent 15 months redesigning the machine's vacuum chamber.
We were on this tour and we were looking through these microscopes and you'd look at some little spots in the microscope and you'd say, well what's that?
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Also, such lasers can scan a much broader field of view than a laser in a digital microscope.
So what you see in an electron microscope, which requires a vacuum, is substantially different from what is naturally there.
Now Gore's wartime letters to his future wife, Tipper, are also under the microscope in a new article in "Talk" magazine.
It's likely to become one of many issues that will go under the microscope in 2009 when consumer advocates, federal regulators and Congress weigh in on financial regulatory reform.
The transistor itself is composed of a single phosphorous-31 isotope, which has been precisely placed on a base of silicon using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope in an ultra-high vacuum chamber.
Dr Brenner and his team embedded their worms in blocks of plastic, sliced the blocks thinly and then stained each slice so its features would show up in an electron microscope.
Remember seventh grade biology when you picked a lab partner, did some unnamed experiments and then huddled around the single microscope in the lab where you had a 1.9 second glance at what was beneath the slides?
Her dancing and choreography experience in the 1980s for stars like Cyndi Lauper put her body under a microscope and in competition with many thin peers.
The current test the government uses in India, in which patients' spit is examined under a microscope, detects the disease in only about half of the cases but is used widely because it is cheap and relatively easy to perform.
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Restraints on bank lending, reform of credit rating agencies, how to supervise giant financial institutions - they are all big technically complex issues that will come under the microscope, probably in the follow-up to the summit.
In the future, the scientists hope to use their new microscope to investigate how organs and tissues form in the fruit fly and other organisms.
The approach also employs a digital microscope to further home in on the pinpointed cancer cells.
In contrast, Yang' lensless microscope places the object close enough to the sensor that it casts a shadow.
In putting the Nobels under the microscope, Burton Feldman starts well enough.
"To our knowledge, this is the first time the mobile phone microscope had been used in the field to diagnose intestinal parasitic infections, " said Isaac Bogoch, an internal medicine specialist at Toronto General Hospital.
"The added credibility of Brent and of taking 30% in the local elections earlier this year means that we come under the microscope more and we have to be more professional and more strict in our entire approach as a party, " he said.
The device of putting just one year under the microscope is a bold one in the medieval context.
In contrast, Yang's lensless microscope places the object close enough to the sensor that it casts a shadow.
"I'll never forget the day I looked down the microscope and saw something funny in the cultures, " Edwards once recalled.
In the above examples with Apple under the microscope I assumed five years.
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And it produces a false positive fewer than three times in a million tries--compared with a hundred false positives in a million tries for an automated digital microscope on its own, the current, most accurate method.
It is already under the regulatory microscope following the collapse of Arthur Andersen in 2002.
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The resulting laser-fiber-microscope combo can spot such 1-in-10 million traveling cancer cells in 30 minutes.
As part of its settlement HCA signed a Corporate Integrity Agreement in 2000 that will keep it under a federal microscope until 2009.
And in Europe, privacy concerns are also under the microscope.
Once-upon-a-laugh-track, many brands kept the humor strictly off camera, but Brand Keys has put one of those categories under the research microscope to see how humor is working in a field once thought far too serious to put in the hands of comedy: Car Insurance.
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