Microscopy Home PageCan you suggest any more items for this section? Mail them to chris@stowey.demon.co.uk. At the moment the list is unstructured as it's so short, but some of this information is very, very useful.
Greg Erdos (University of Florida) has collected up these tips and tricks which may help out with the odd practical problem from time to time.
There's a handy glossary of terms at the University of Nebraska's Central Facility for Electron Microscopy.
Take a look at Julian Dow's Dictionary of Cell Biology to look up that obscure term you've just seen in a publication. Try entering microsc as a search term, you'll be impressed with the array of items that appears.
Henrik Kaker in Slovenia has a useful list of microscopy manufacturers and suppliers in his Vendor's database.
BioSupplyNet is provided by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Check here for biomedical suppliers of all kinds.
If you need a suitable icon, have a look at the Microscopy-Related Icons collection.
One of NASA's Web sites provides a useful list of 3-d graphics reconstruction software
Need to contact someone? Look in the Directory of Microscopists on the Net. Name, affiliation, e-mail address, phone number, and a brief list of interests are included. Drop by and add your own details.
The Electron Microscopy Yellow pages provides a tremendous range of information in readily accessible form. Don't miss it!
Check this Glossary of EM terms for definitions of the common abbreviations and expressions used. Handy for students or anyone not familiar with the field.
The Material Safety Data Sheets are available by Gopher. Check them out, not just for safety information but for molecular weights, melting points, boiling points etc. too.
General bookshops, but with a good range of current microscopy titles.
Excitation and emission wavelengths are available for a wide range of fluorochromes from the State University of New York.
Lance Ladic provides this handy data sheet on antifade reagents.