The modern microscope is an incredibly powerful tool when it comes to detecting disease, but typically the biological material being studied needs to be stained or dyed to reveal its secrets. This can ...

Weighing a single living cell sounds like a party trick, yet the numbers involved are so small that they push the limits of ...

A new microscope lets scientists observe both large structures and tiny particles inside living cells at the same time, ...

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 ...

New device could be used to observe structures as small as individual proteins, as well as the environment in which they move ...

One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they react during times of stress, such as when the temperature gets ...

A team of researchers in Germany and Australia recently used a new microscopy technique to image nano-scale biological structures at a previously unmanageable resolution, without destroying the living ...

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 ...