... to determine what causes disease. Samples of skin can be taken from people and studied with an electron microscope, known as biopsies, to find diseases such as cancer. And as the electron microscope has improved, so has the health of the world's population with diseases being diagnosed faster and more medicines and cures being made. Immunology and virology are other sciences linked with this. Cytology, study of cells and their components uses the electron microscope to see entire structures or systems. Great developments, in this field, have been made due to the electron microscope. Morphology is similar to this study also. Another science, genetics, has made great leaps and bounds in its findings thanks to the electron microscope. Diseases can now be seen if they derive from the genes of a person, and also the structure and arrangement of chromosomes and DNA can be seen in clear detail. Histology is the ...

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