A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

Scientists have developed a powerful new microscope that reveals, for the first time, how plants store a 'memory' of winter ...

Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...

Confocal microscopy is a specialized fluorescence imaging technique that scientists use to acquire images at greater resolution than conventional microscopy. 1 In addition to scanning the lateral x ...

When Juliet Nnenda Olayinka learned that her university in south-western Nigeria had been selected to receive a research-grade microscope, she felt a surge of hope. After months preparing her ...

Biologists can image proteins using electron and atomic force microscopes. They can visualize the three-dimensional structure of proteins--amino-acid sequences folded in complicated ways--by using X ...

Research completed through a collaboration with University of Missouri engineers, biologists, and chemists could transform how scientists study molecules and cells at sub-microscopic (nanoscale) ...