Carl Zeiss's Special Microscope for Biological Research Installed At Max Planck Institute

OBERKOCHEN/FRANKFURT, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PACEM is a transmission electron microscope (TEM) designed to image low-contrast biological specimens. It was specially developed and installed at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics (MPI-BP) by optical expert Carl Zeiss in Oberkochen and researchers from the Macromolecular Complexes excellence cluster in Frankfurt. PACEM stands for Phase contrast Aberration Corrected Electron Microscope which describes a special procedure that enhances even the slightest differences in contrast in the specimen, thus enabling specimen imaging that can be better evaluated.