Using advanced microscopes that capture brain cell anatomy and activity, a portion of a mouse's brain was mapped and rendered ...

Scientists have attempted to map the human cell since the first microscope was invented more than 400 years ago. But many components of the cell still remain uncharted. “ We know each of the proteins ...

Nearly 150 years ago, scientists began to imagine how information might flow through the brain based on the shapes of neurons ...

A new microscope just arrived at the International Space Station to help study life's adaptability under extreme conditions ...

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists ...

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their ...

In the final ELVIS platform delivered to orbit, the DHM module "provides better than 0.8-micron spatial resolution across a 0.25 mm 3 flow-through cell, and has the ability to detect fewer than 100 ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together. By Jack Tamisiea For a creature made up of only a single cell ...

Related: The search for alien life Unlike traditional two-dimensional microscopes, ELVIS allows researchers to observe the intricate structure and behavior of living cells in a volumetric format.