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A microscope’s job is to magnify the minuscule world around us. We can observe the tiniest objects, organisms and materials, and investigate their form, texture and composition, to witness what would ...

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 ...

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1 Faculty of Science, Assam down town University, Guwahati, Assam, India 2 Life Sciences Division, Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology, Guwahati, Assam, India Methodology: Confocal ...