For journalists
NeCEN is a new facility for electron microscopy, with two of the most advanced cryo-transmission electron microscopes available. Ten research institutes in The Netherlands collaborated to establish this national facility, as none of them could finance such a centre alone. The technology allows scientists to zoom in on cells down to the level of molecules and even atoms. The microscopes can be used by all research institutes and companies. The centre is expected to lead to many different applications, including faster and better developing of methods to diagnose, cure and prevent diseases. The centre will be opened on October 27th
- Press release about the opening
- Short introduction movie about NeCEN
- Movie: 3D structure of a Herpes Simplex Virus 1
For more information, high resolution images or attendance of the opening, please contact Martine Oudenhoven:
oudenhovenmat@chem.leidenuniv.nl – 0031 (0)71 527 421
Photos and images
Titan Krios on the outside
Demonstration of the microscope to potential users
Image taken with the newly installed FEI Falcon detector in August. Bottom: FFT image of a crossgating sample that demonstrates the image quality. Top: the sample, scale bar is 1 nm on top left, 10 nm on top right.
First image of a biological sample (worm haemoglobin) made with 'Krios 1' by the NeCEN commissioning team in september.
Cryo-TEM image of Campylobater bacterium, by Roman Koning (LUMC)
The process of reconstructing the 3D structure of a protein (right) from cryo-TEM images (left). This protein is involved in tuberculosis. By Musa Sani, NKI-AVL
3D electron microscopy reconstruction of part of a cell. The mitochondrion is pink.
