■ Foreword

For the sound development of morphology

Chizuka Ide

■ In Memoriam

In commemoration of Prof. Masao Yoshida

Seiji Kato

■ Feature Articles: Environmental cell, in-situ observation

Introduction to environmental transmission electron microscopy

Seiji Takeda

In situ S/TEM at the atomic scale: looking to the future

D.J. Stokes, K. Inoke and D.H.W. Hubert

Film-sealed type Environmental Cell system

Kurio Fukushima and Akira Ishikawa

Development of environmental TEM techniques and its application

Takeo Kamino, Keisuke Kishita, Shigeo Arai and Hiroyasu Saka

Development and application of high pressure and high-resolution environmental transmission electron microscope

Hideto Yoshida and Seiji Takeda

■ Reviews

Development of mass microscopy

Mitsutoshi Setou, Mineo Matsumoto, Naofumi Hosokawa, Yuki Sugiura and Takahiro Hayasaka

Molecular and cellular basis for the secretory granule biogenesis in endocrine cells

Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Yuko Sakai, Yoshiki Hira, Hiroki Bochimoto and Masahiro Hosaka

Biogenesis of plant cell wall as revealed by freeze fracturing

Satoshi Kimura

■ Lectures

Development of accurate automatic 3D reconstruction method and the structure of TPRC3 channel

Toshihiko Ogura, Kazuhiro Mio and Chikara Sato

Introduction of scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Masahiko Tomitori

Principles of TEM image formation

Toyohiko J. Konno

Mechanism of establishment of endosymbiosis between the ciliate Paramecium bursaria and the symbiotic alga Chlorella species

Yuuki Kodama and Masahiro Fujishima

■ Researches Today

Development of double-probe piezo-driving holder for TEM

Kazuya Yamazaki, Isamu Ishikawa, Shunji Deguchi, Masao Inoue, Yukihito Kondo, Yasukazu Murakami and Daisuke Shindo

Confirmation of information transfer using lattice image

Ken Harada, Akira Tonomura, Tetsuya Akashi and Tsuyoshi Matsuda

Development of the molecular labeling for electron microscopy

Atsuo Miyazawa

Multi-position long time imaging in plant cells

Yoshikatsu Sato and Nagisa Sugimoto

■ Conference Reports

5^th International Society for Autonomic Neuro­science (ISAN)

Hirofumi Kuramoto

Report on 6th International Symposium on Atomic Level Characterizations for New Materials and Devices ’07

Shigeru Suzuki

The eleventh Frontiers of Electron Microscopy in Materials Science Conference (FEMMS’07)

Yuichi Ikuhara

■ Staff Commentary

Toshiyuki Isshiki