A new microscope can capture detailed three-dimensional views of living cells and larger tissues using one adaptable system.

A complete, ready-to-teach GCSE Biology lesson focused on using light microscopes to observe cells, with links to the GCSE Required Practical on using a light microscope to observe and draw plant and ...

Microscope photos allow us to see where small particles inside a cell are located. But if those particles move toward or away ...

The invention that first enabled researchers to see clear images of living cells was the phase-contrast microscope, which won its inventor, Frits Zernike, a Nobel Prize in 1932. Prior to Zernike's ...

Every schoolkid has peered into a microscope and been awed by the hidden world of skin cells and squiggly bacteria. But microscopes are also critical tools for investigating the causes of disease and ...

Researchers use tightly focused laser beams to image biological samples, shape materials with microscopic precision and ...

Researchers have incorporated a swept illumination source into an open-top light-sheet microscope to enable improved optical sectioning over a larger area of view. The advance makes the technique more ...