How to Use microscopy in a Sentence

microscopy

noun
  • Here’s some of what scientists are learning in this new age of light microscopy.
    — Katarina Zimmer, JSTOR Daily, 14 Aug. 2025
  • This new microscopy technique could also help shape future medicines.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2025
  • At one time, coverslips, mirrors and lenses ruled the world of microscopy.
    — Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Electron microscopy revealed that when hair pushes against weak points on the metal blade, the steel chips apart.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Aug. 2020
  • To form the nanoparticles, the team turned to advanced electron microscopy.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 3 June 2026
  • With special stains and microscopy, both parasites look like little rings inside red blood cells.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The technique makes use of expanding brain tissue and what’s called lattice light-sheet microscopy.
    — Alison MacKey, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2019
  • In ​cryo-electron microscopy, the next step could be animation.
    — David Gauthier-Villars, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2017
  • As the following images show, microscopy is now both art and science, a blend of data and design.
    — Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Scrubbings are rinsed into a tray, then poured into a storage vial for microscopy and analysis.
    — Lesley Evans Ogden, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2023
  • For decades, scientists have pushed the limits of microscopy to capture sharper and deeper views of the brain.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The team used electron microscopy to learn about the chemical composition of the food residue.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
  • This is not the company's first foray into smartphone microscopy.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 22 Nov. 2019
  • Traction force microscopy is a multistage process that is time consuming to perform.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 8 Mar. 2021
  • In expansion microscopy, specific biomolecules such as proteins are anchored to the gel.
    — Molly Herring, Quanta Magazine, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Now, a new preprint paper published last week revealed the strange and alien shapes of those giant virus using electron microscopy.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Each year, Nikon runs a microscopy competition honoring the best images of all things small.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2018
  • One way of solving this is a technique known as expansion microscopy, in which the cell is filled with a polymer that expands when it is placed in water.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • These tiny particles can be detected through both light and electron microscopy and can be tailored to specific sizes.
    — Byrodrigo Pérez Ortega, science.org, 4 Sep. 2024
  • The team used electron microscopy, a technique that sends beams of electrons through a particle, projecting an image.
    — Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 26 June 2018
  • Newer techniques like the electron microscopy used by Subramaniam can be faster, but the process is still far from easy.
    — Tom Simonite, Wired, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Using a very advanced form of microscopy called cryo-EM, the team was able to observe the bacteria in great detail.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The company has even designed the container so that light can be diffused in from beneath for microscopy purposes.
    — ArsTechnica, 20 May 2026
  • These microscopy techniques can be used to better match patients to effective therapies, Sauer says.
    — Katarina Zimmer, JSTOR Daily, 14 Aug. 2025
  • And this is where Bill Herron says Mary would probably have used chemical microscopy.
    — Sarah Wyman, Scientific American, 27 June 2024
  • The researchers turned to advanced electron microscopy to observe the material in real time after each laser strike.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 May 2026
  • Hell’s technique was among several advances in microscopy that spurred Betzig to resume his career in science.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Perhaps one day super-resolution advances might rival those of electron microscopy.
    — Katarina Zimmer, JSTOR Daily, 14 Aug. 2025
  • By combining this imaging with simulations and light microscopy, the team mapped how chromatin fibers interact and form droplet networks.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Dec. 2025
  • And of course, the foremost reason is nobody could image into the brain before, until photon microscopy became available.
    — Amanda Erickson, STAT, 7 Apr. 2026

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