Deep inside a small, windowless room at the University of California, Berkeley, two microscopes are quietly capturing some of ...

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

In a landmark achievement in biological imaging, researchers at Biohub and the University of California, Berkeley today ...

Let's take a look at how to observe cells under a microscope. No prizes for guessing the first thing you'll need: a microscope. But don't worry if you don't have one of your own. Ask your school if ...

Stanford researchers have developed a microscope that can show how nanostructures interact inside living cells at the highest ...

See the fascinating interaction between parasites and white blood cells in microscopic detail. Explore the science behind ...

What does the inside of a cell really look like? In the past, standard microscopes were limited in how well they could answer this question. Now, researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and ...

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 ...

Fifteen years ago, physicists worked out a method to increase image contrast by hitting the electron imaging beam with an ...

As space agencies prepare for human missions to the Moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the absence of gravity affects living cells. Now, a team of researchers has built a rugged, ...

Cells are tiny, so we use microscopes to see their details. A slide is a thin piece of glass used to hold objects which are examined under a microscope. Peel a thin layer of cells from an onion. Place ...