New Electron Microscope Identifies Individual Color-coded Atoms

ScienceDaily reports New Electron Microscope Identifies Individual Color-coded Atoms.

A new electron microscope recently installed in Cornell's Duffield Hall is enabling scientists for the first time to form images that uniquely identify individual atoms in a crystal and see how those atoms bond to one another. And in living color.

Wow, that is cool.

Electron Microscopy isn't being used in digital pathology (yet!); cells are bigger than atoms, and sample sizes are pretty different.  But the fundamental knowledge gained from research with electron microscopes can be useful in drug discovery, for example, in analyzing active sites.