Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.

Researchers at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (MD, USA) have combined two different microscope technologies to create sharper images of rapidly moving processes inside ...

Martin Jones describes how new approaches to electron microscopy are helping biomedical scientists get the most out of ever-increasing flows of data Thinly sliced This focused ion beam scanning ...

Cells contain various specialized structures - such as the nucleus, mitochondria or peroxisomes - known as "organelles''. Tracing their genesis and determining their structure is fundamental to ...

Welcome to the Confocal Microscopy Lab at RIT. This lab provides faculty and students with a multidisciplinary imaging research and training facility centered around confocal microscopy. The ...

(Nanowerk News) In work that could lead to new ways of detecting and treating malaria, MIT researchers have used two advanced microscopy techniques to show in unprecedented detail how the malaria ...

Researchers have demonstrated that consumer-grade 3D printers and inexpensive materials can produce advanced optical ...

Scientists have built microscopic, light-powered robots that can think, swim, and operate independently at the scale of ...

Advances in cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), primarily driven by the life sciences, have emerged as powerful techniques for the characterization of beam and air sensitive materials. Cryo-EM ...