Two of the most powerful microscopes in the world have been unveiled at the University of Leeds.
The equipment worth in the region of £17 million is part of the Astbury BioStructure Laboratory.
The centre, which was opened by Wellcome Director Dr Jeremy Farrar earlier this week, hosts a 950 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer and two 300 kV electron microscopes. These are believed to be amongst the most powerful devices of their kind in the world.
Dr Rebecca Thompson loads a biological sample into one of the microscopes. Credit: University of LeedsUniversity staff overseeing the installation of the microscopes late last year. They took more than two months construct and have been installed in a former TV studio. Credit: University of Leeds
The arrival of the new hardware means University of Leeds scientists are now in a position of being able to study bacteria, viruses, and the macromolecules that dictate the life and health of our cells at near atomic level in three different ways.
