A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Weighing a single living cell sounds like a party trick, yet the numbers involved are so small that they push the limits of ...