A new microscope is capable of live imaging of biological processes in such detail that moving protein complexes are visible. In Nijmegen, the world's first microscope has been installed that is ...

By combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the optical properties of a ...

Genoa (Italy), July 24, 2025 – Until today, skin, brain, and all tissues of the human body were difficult to observe in detail with an optical microscope, since the contrast in the image was hindered ...

Discover how new developments in cryo-electron microscopy are set to transform biological imaging by supporting more targeted ...

Innovative laser scanning design unlocks high-precision observations at up to 10,000 frames per second, making the microscope a powerful recording tool Two-photon microscopy (TPM) has revolutionized ...

Microscopy is an imaging technique that enables us to see a world that would otherwise be invisible to us. Once upon a time, visualizing cells, microbes and other entities not perceptible to the naked ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—When faced with a scientific mystery, Western Michigan University doctoral candidate Samantha Hack cannot help but try to solve it. A detective in the biological sciences currently ...

The light microscope was first developed and famously used in the late 1600s by the Dutch naturalist, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, to look at small pond creatures he called "animalcules." Observations ...