Deep inside a small, windowless room at the University of California, Berkeley, two microscopes are quietly capturing some of ...

As space agencies prepare for human missions to the moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity affects living cells. Now, a team of researchers has built a rugged, ...

Established laboratory tests mainly capture average values across many cells and show, for example, how many cancer cells survive after contact with immune cells.

In a landmark achievement in biological imaging, researchers at Biohub and the University of California, Berkeley today ...

Laser-driven thermoviscous flows provide contact-free rotation, transport or stabilization of delicate samples such as ...

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich have developed a new microscope that significantly improves how bioluminescent signals in living cells can be observed. The ...

Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells ...

Nearly 100 years ago, a seemingly simple discovery revolutionized the microscope. The introduction of phase contrast, which ...

With a so-called cryo plasma-FIB (Plasma Focused Ion Beam) scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator, Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany) is expanding its research infrastructure with a ...

A scanning electron microscope image of a supergiant Euplotes gigatrox cell. (Ben Larson/Samuel Lord) A newly discovered ...