An international team has developed OpenCGChromatin, an open-source simulation tool that acts as a computational microscope ...

Science educator Adolfo Sanchez-Blanco has performed a variety of engaging and enjoyable experiments for his TikTok audience, ...

A hybrid microscope allows scientists to simultaneously image the full 3D orientation and position of an ensemble of molecules, such as labeled proteins inside cells. The microscope combines polarized ...

To observe living cells through a microscope, a sample is usually squeezed onto a glass slide. It then lies there calmly and the cells are observable. The disadvantage is that this limits how the ...

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 ...

Engineers from Brown University have developed a new way of imaging cell migration dynamics that are important in ...

Every year, wind and other abiotic forces cause herbaceous crop stems to buckle and snap, a phenomenon known as lodging that ...

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 ...

Immune cells fight infectious intruders, for example, or search for incipient cancers. Therefore, they are constantly migrating through the tissues of our body. But in the wrong place, immune cells ...

Researchers at Princeton and Rockefeller University have found a new way to study cellular communication, recording interactions between cells as they work in a living organism and unlocking new ways ...

Deep inside a small, windowless room at the University of California, Berkeley, two microscopes are quietly capturing some of the most detailed views of life ever recorded. Day and night, they collect ...

A new type of advanced microscope (wide-field coherent multidimensional microscopy) has been developed. It uses a carefully ...