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Microscopy Society of America Focused Interest Groups: A Historical (and Personal) Perspective
Beverly E. Maleeff
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31 May 2022, pp. 46-49
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“A Focused Interest Group (FIG) is a group of not less than ten MSA members who have organized, with the approval of MSA Council, to promote a specific discipline relevant to microscopy or microanalysis.” – mission statement from the FIG guidelines.

Electron Optics Instruments LLC
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25 March 2022, p. 13
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Industry News – March 2022
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25 March 2022, pp. 48-51
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Walter McCrone (1916–2002): A Life Lived Fully
Cameron Varano
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31 May 2022, pp. 50-51
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MSA Focused Interest Groups: Atom Probe Field Ion Microscopy and Focused Ion Beam Microscopy
Katherine Jungjohann, Daniel Perea, Josh Sugar, David Diercks, KD Derr, Arun Devaraj
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11 July 2022, pp. 42-45
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Highlights from Microscopy and Microanalysis
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24 November 2022, pp. 52-53
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Highlights from Microscopy and Microanalysis
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25 March 2022, pp. 52-53
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Dr. John Spence: Beyond the Boundaries
Cameron Varano Casasanta
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22 September 2022, pp. 44-45
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Recent Advances in Gas Injection System-Free Cryo-FIB Lift-Out Transfer for Cryo-Electron Tomography of Multicellular Organisms and Tissues
Sven Klumpe, Jakub Kuba, Oda H. Schioetz, Philipp S. Erdmann, Alexander Rigort, Jürgen M. Plitzko
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31 January 2022, pp. 42-47
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Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) enables visualization of protein complexes within their native cellular environment at molecular resolution. Most cells and all tissues, however, are too thick to be imaged directly by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Overcoming this limitation requires the production of thin biological sections called lamellae. The procedure to obtain lamellae of cells, either seeded or grown directly on electron microscopy grids, requires cryo-focused ion beam (cryo-FIB) milling to thin the samples. This method faces an additional challenge when dealing with tissues and multicellular organisms, as these samples must be high-pressure frozen, which embeds the sample in a thick layer of ice. Nonetheless, lamellae can still be prepared from such samples by extracting a small volume and transferring it to a receiver grid for lamella preparation, a process called lift-out. Here, we describe the available workflows to produce lamellae by lift-out at cryogenic conditions and recent developments in gas injection system (GIS)-free approaches to the lift-out transfer. These advances expand the applications of cryo-ET, enabling the investigation of tissues and whole organisms in situ at molecular resolution.