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THE fundamentally improved designs for the electron microscope made in recent years by different workers have led to such an improvement in the resolving power that a direct study of giant molecules with the aid of this instrument may contribute in a certain degree to our knowledge of their appearance. If we except the researches on viruses, the following investigations already performed in this direction should be mentioned: M. von Ardenne1 and W. M. Stanley and Th. F. Anderson2 have succeeded in photographing hæmo-cyanin and edestin; E. Husemann and H. Ruska have also photographed glycogen3 and iodobenzoyl-glycogen4. All these molecules, however, are more or less spherical (Φ ˜ 100–300 A.). They therefore appear on the plates as small diffuse dots. The electron-microscopical investigation of these molecules is facilitated by their more compact structure, which gives a good contrast with the substrate. In the case of iodobenzoylglycogen, this contrast has been further improved by the introduction of heavy atoms into the molecule.
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INGELMAN, B., SIEGBAHN, K. Dextran and Levan Molecules Studied with the Electron Microscope. Nature 154, 237–238 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154237a0
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