A new microscope lets scientists observe both large structures and tiny particles inside living cells at the same time, ...

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 ...

How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast ...

The polarized diSPIM microscope, which can image full 3D orientation and position of molecules in cells. The instrument was constructed in the Hari Shroff lab at the National Institute of Biomedical ...

One of the most well-studied cellular responses is how they react during times of stress, such as when the temperature gets ...