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interpreting a TEM

Postby MrMistery on Wed May 07, 2008 8:41 pm

I know this sounds stupid(mainly because it is)
What might a TEM of a drak circle with a lot of white circles in it represent? I have no idea of the magnification, nor have I ever seen the picture. Any imput would be welcome, although I realize it is next to impossible to deduce anything from this description....
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Postby canalon on Thu May 08, 2008 2:51 pm

Good guess about the next to impossible to deduce. I guess It would be the image of a round thing that take the stain fairly well with other structures taking it much less on it ;) A scan would be helpful.

I won't be more helpful if you do not guess what my qPCR result curve means without further description :P
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Postby MrMistery on Thu May 08, 2008 3:10 pm

Like i said, i have never seen the picture. If I get a copy, i'll upload it
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Postby canalon on Thu May 08, 2008 3:19 pm

Soyou were offered the same challenge as us: identify a picture on a quite short description? Nice to share with us. OK my guess: A filter wheel for the world smallest qPCR thermocycler, able to work with nanoliter reactions. Yeah for cheap, but hard to pipette ;)
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Postby snowcapk on Fri May 09, 2008 4:47 am

White circles = high transmission, so my guess is they are vacuoles or vesicles inside a more electron-dense cell. Mutations in the secretory pathway can cause accumulation of these vesicles (see page three of this pdf).
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