To ensure our bodies function correctly, the cells that compose them must operate properly. Imagine a cell as a bustling city ...

Seeing inside cells with CryoEM technology. Video produced by BYU University Communications. Producers Adam Sanders and Julie Walker. Edited by Adam Sanders. Additional footage provided by Caltech and ...

Cells come unhitched from each other in this image of a pistachio hull where it has split. Look at about three o’clock in this photo where it’s violet; the cells look like they're all squished ...

Researchers have developed a new technique to view living mammalian cells. The team used a powerful laser, called a soft X-ray free electron laser, to emit ultrafast pulses of illumination at the ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair. Instead of choosing between seeing big structures or tiny particles, researchers ...

Nikon just announced the winners of the 2024 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, where scientific microscope images become art. This year’s top prize went to Bruno Cisterna, who (assisted ...

The microscopic world of cells and bacteria is incredibly important to understand, but tricky to study in detail, especially without harming the subjects. Researchers at EPFL have now developed a new ...

A new hybrid microscope for the first time allows scientists to simultaneously image the full 3D orientation and position of an ensemble of molecules, such as labeled proteins inside cells. (Nanowerk ...

Jeremy Linsley was supported by the National Institutes of Health (U54 NS191046, R37 NS101996, RF1 AG058476, RF1 AG056151, RF1 AG058447, P01 AG054407, U01 MH115747), the National Library of Medicine ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Sean Anthony Eddy via Getty Images A microscope’s job is to magnify the minuscule world ...