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Mapping the cell: advent of the thin section and characterization of the ER
1School of Science and Technology Studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. nrasmussn@delphi.com
Nature Cell Biology
|November 13, 1999
Abstract:
The development of improved techniques for studying tissues by electron microscopy parallelled the discovery and characterization of the endoplasmic reticulum. But researchers had first to be convinced that the endoplasmic reticulum wasn't an artefact produced by electron-microscopic techniques.