■ Foreword

Flight from Science? Flight from Microscopy?

Seiji Isoda

■ Feature Articles: Autophagy: Fusion of Morphology and Molecular Biology

Rapid Progress of Autophagy Research

Akitsugu Yamamoto

Electron Tomographic Analysis of Autophagosome Formation

Mitsuko Hayashi-Nishino

Artificial Induction of Autophagy around Polystyrene Microbeads

Shouhei Kobayashi and Tokuko Haraguchi

Mechanism of Mitophagy in Yeast

Noriko Okamoto, Koji Okamoto and Yoshinori Ohsumi

Lipid Droplets and Autophagy

Yuki Shinohara, Yuki Ohsaki, Michitaka Suzuki and Toyoshi Fujimoto

The Role of Autophagy during Early Embryogenesis in Mice

Satoshi Tsukamoto, Chieko Kishi and Noboru Mizushima

Molecular Biology and Morphology of Alternative Macroautophagy

Shigeomi Shimizu, Satoko Arakawa and Yuya Nishida

■ Reviews

Innervation of Muscle Spindles

Junzo Desaki

Electron Tomography to Visualise Dislocations in Three-dimension

Masaki Tanaka, Kenji Higashida, Kenji Kaneko, Masatoshi Mitsuhara and Satoshi Hata

■ Lectures

Electron Tomography, Its Issues and Application

Kenji Kaneko, Norio Baba and Hiroshi Jinnai

T7-like Viral Infection of Cyanobacteria Visualized by Electron Cryo-tomography Single Particle Analysis

Kazuyoshi Murata, Qinfen Zhang, Xiangan Liu, Michael Schmid and Wah Chiu

Electron Optics for Aberration Correction in Electron Microscopy

Shigeo Okayama

Multi-Biprism Electron Interferometry

Ken Harada

■ Researches Today

Ultrastructural Study of Gastric Mucosa by Using High-pressure Freezing Technique

Akira Sawaguchi and Fumiyo Toyoshima

Low Energy Scanning Electron Microscope Mounted with a Single-atom Electron Source

Naoki Chiyoda, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Bokurai Cho, Akira Yonezawa, Hidekazu Saito, Makoto Kanda and Chuhei Oshima

Stabilization of Cantilever Oscillation in Dynamic-mode Atomic Force Microscopy Using Time-Delayed Feedback

Kohei Yamasue and Takashi Hikihara

■ Staff Commentary

Toshiyuki Matsuzaki