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Developing Novel Probes for Correlative Light Electron Microscopy

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Interest in correlative light electron microscopy (CLEM) started in the 1950s but is now experiencing a resurgence, primarily due to the discovery of GFP and increased access to instruments required to achieve the technically demanding techniques.

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Sharp, T.H. (2014). Developing Novel Probes for Correlative Light Electron Microscopy. In: Biomolecular Imaging at High Spatial and Temporal Resolution In Vitro and In Vivo. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02159-1_5

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