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

Taking images of tiny structures within cells is tricky business. One technique, cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), ...

Scientists have crossed a startling new frontier in bioengineering: they can now fabricate intricate three-dimensional ...

New device could be used to observe structures as small as individual proteins, as well as the environment in which they move ...

Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) ceremonially commissioned a state-of-the-art cryo plasma-FIB scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator worth more than 5 million euros on Thursday. The ...

Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.

Scientists have transformed enigmatic cell structures, called vaults, into storage units for messenger-RNA molecules made in ...

Conceptual illustration of the bidirectional quantitative scattering microscope, which detects both forward and backward scattered light from cells. This dual detection enables visualization of ...

A new hybrid microscope for the first time allows scientists to simultaneously image the full 3D orientation and position of an ensemble of molecules, such as labeled proteins inside cells. (Nanowerk ...

Nikon just announced the winners of the 2024 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, where scientific microscope images become art. This year’s top prize went to Bruno Cisterna, who (assisted ...

A project at Rice University has developed a novel approach to nanoscale cellular imaging, one that could lead to improved knowledge of subcellular structures. Reported in Nature Communications, the ...