Leonie Schön's Lamellipodium Art blends medicine and art, turning microscopic images of cells and tissues into striking ...

UCSF researchers are using tiny "mini-organs" to model disease, personalize treatment, and understand human development. They ...

Unlike almost every other kind of microscope, atomic-force microscopes (AFMs) don’t use any kind of optical beam to image ...

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

A new time-lapse captures mycorrhiza in motion at a sub-cellular level for the first time. Dr Jennifer McGaley explains how ...

Summary: Human daylight vision relies on our ability to see thousands of colors, perceive sharp fine details, and track fast-moving objects. This remarkable sensory capability is driven entirely by ...

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

Biohub and UC Berkeley show that the laser phase plate, a revolutionary device with a laser 100 million times brighter than the Sun, dramatically improves images obtained through cryo-electron ...

Ayurvedic herb ashwagandha has come under the microscope after regulators banned the use of its leaves in food products — sparking a wider conversation on wellness, safety & the limits of ‘natural’ re ...

Microscopes are a fundamental part of pathology workflows. Pathologists use microscopes to achieve efficient and reliable diagnoses, especially in histopathology, hematopathology, and medical ...