Researchers have developed a high-speed 3D imaging microscope that can capture detailed cell dynamics of an entire small whole organism at once. The ability to image 3D changes in real time over a ...

There are multiple lab courses in the microbiology major that utilize this fundamental tool of microbiology, the microscope. Based on the successful use of these cameras in this non-majors course, the ...

Lipids are difficult to detect with light microscopy. Using a new chemical labeling strategy, a Dresden-based team led by André Nadler at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and ...

Reinventing biology labs by turning smartphones into microscopes Date: July 29, 2014 Source: Missouri University of Science and Technology Summary: With nothing more than a smartphone and less ...

Microscopes have long served as windows into the hidden world of cells, revealing their shape, activity, and chemistry. Yet watching life at this scale has always involved trade-offs.

Quantum microscope for living biology Date: February 4, 2013 Source: Australian National University Summary: A team of Australian scientists has developed a powerful microscope using the laws of ...

Life is pretty interesting, and at the microscopic scale, it can also be beautiful, strange, intriguing, frightening and gross. The winning photos and videos from this year’s Olympus BioScapes ...

A head louse as microscope pioneer Antoni van Leeuwenhoek might have seen it (Image: Brian J. Ford) Who needs fancy electron microscopes when you've got the simple but ingenious hand-held ...

In order to map one of the world’s largest viruses, scientists took a DIY approach to build a retrofitted cryo-electron microscope. “If the common cold virus is scaled to the size of a ladder, then ...

Teacher Notes Your class could use microscopes in a follow up activity to observe and draw the structure of magnified objects. Interesting objects for students to look at could include different ...