Medical Definition of Replica methods
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Methods in the preparation of specimens for transmission electron microscopy. The specimen (for example: a piece of freeze fractured tissue) is shadowed with metal and coated with carbon and then the tissue is digested away. The replica is then picked up on a grid and it is the replica that is examined in the microscope.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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