Using advanced electron crystallography techniques, researchers at Stockholm University have succeeded in determining the ...

This protective sheath, called the glycocalyx ... including cryogenic electron tomography and electron microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, mass spectrometry, as well as genetic manipulation ...

First, they visualized the glycocalyx layers in three-month-old (young) and 21-month-old (aged) mice using transmission electron microscopy and lanthanum nitrate staining. This revealed ...