■ Foreword

Where Does the “Impact Factor” Go ?

Hiroshi Shimoyama

■ Feature Articles: Biological Applications of STEM Tomography

The Marriage of STEM to Electron Tomography

Kazuhiro Aoyama and Atsuo Miyazawa

STEM-Tomography for Thick Biological Specimens

Kazuhiro Aoyama

Quantitative Determination of Beam Irradiation Damages to Biological Specimens Caused by STEM Tomography

Ai Hirase and Atsuo Miyazawa

Dark Field Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Imaging Improves Resolution in Tomography of Biological Specimens

Keisuke Ohta, Ryuhei Higashi and Kei-ichiro Nakamura

Structural Analysis of Cell Membranes by Small Convergence Angle HAADF-STEM Tomography

Nobuhiro Morone and Kazuhiro Aoyama

■ Reviews

Atmospheric Scanning Electron Microscope Observes Cells in Solution

Hidetoshi Nishiyama, Mitsuo Suga, Toshihiko Ogura, Yuusuke Maruyama, Mitsuru Koizumi, Kazuhiro Mio, Shinichi Kitamura and Chikara Sato

Surface Plasmon Studied by Transmission Electron Microscopy-Cathodoluminescence Technique

Naoki Yamamoto, Takahiro Suzuki and Kengo Takeuchi

■ Lectures

Heterogeneity of Fusion Phenomena in Maxillo-facial Morphogenesis and Epithelial Cell Differentiation during the Fusion of Palatal Shelves

Toshiya Takigawa

Convergent-beam Electron Diffraction

Kenji Tsuda

■ Researches Today

Identification of the Proliferating Region and Tissue-type Stem Cells in the Lens Epithelium

Naoki Yamamoto

Development of Analytical Electron Microscope Attached with a Microcalorimeter-type EDS — Current State and Future Development —

Toru Hara, Keiichi Tanaka, Keisuke Maehata, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Noriko Yamasaki, Mitsuaki Ohsaki, Shigemasa Ohta, Katsuaki Watanabe, Xiuzhen Yu, Yoshihiro Yamanaka and Takuji Ito

■ Conference Reports

Report on Microscopy and Microanalysis 2009

Naoya Shibata

Short Report on the Twelfth Frontiers of Electron Microscopy in Materials Science (FEMMS2009)

Syo Matsumura

■ On the occasion of 60th Anniversary of the Japanese Society of Microscopy

■ Staff Commentary

Kaoru Mitsuoka