Comments on: New Nano-Scale Imaging Technique Takes Pictures of Viruses in 3-D

By: TheXRay

TheXRay — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:47:48 +0000

no pics – didn’t happen…

By: anna.b

anna.b — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:02:53 +0000

if we get a better look at t he viruses and study them more, it could allow doctors to get a better look and it could help the doctors treat the virus!

By: Maria P

Maria P — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:53:36 +0000

I like this article because knowing we are getting one step closer with this technology to help out people who probably got health problems is really helpful…maybe it helps out doctors more!!

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:47:27 +0000

Just think about it in 2030 we might start liveing on the moon because we find new technique every day.

By: catherine T

catherine T — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:32:26 +0000

this article is really cool because of the fact that this world is moving and its moving fast 100 years ago we didnt have lights we had candles and we didnt have color tv now we have all that plus more and i just think it is really cool how far we have come in this world and i know there is more to come

By: codylicious

codylicious — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:35:05 +0000

Nuestra tecnología asombra, pero el más creamos para curar el más destruimos la sociedad.

By: joey r.

joey r. — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:32:57 +0000

Getting a better look at these virus’ will alloy doctors to get a better look and possibly be able to treat them more affectively.

By: nick

nick — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:31:09 +0000

I have to take exception to paragraph two. Atomic Force Microscopy uses zero electrons. It uses a cantilever arm with a turntable-like ‘needle’ on the end of it that uses coulomb forces and a laser beam bounces off the back of the cantilever to measure surface topology non-destructively. The tip of a AFM never actually touches the sample, it just floats on the cushion of electrons of the surface atoms of the sample.

AFM can’t use electrons, because it doesn’t use a vacuum system, it operates in plain old air (or submersed in liquid).

STEM (Scanning Tunneling) does use electrons, and will cook a biological sample after a few minutes of study unless you’re using cryomicroscopy to chill the sample to liquid nitrogen levels, which keeps the sample more in-tact for study (but will eventually be contaminated or destroyed).

However, this new IBM technology will likely revolutionize microscopy, because with FMRI, we see the INSIDES of peoples brains and bodies. This technique in microscopy may at some point allow us to image the insides of objects, as Jonathan Jacky explains. Hail to IBM, one of the hottest places around if you’re into nanotech.

-an Electron Microscopy student