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 ...

Electron microscopy uses a beam of electrons to illuminate a sample and achieve much higher spatial resolution than light microscopy. Transmission electron microscopy generates an image of the ...

Liquid cell electron microscopy (LC-EM) has emerged as a transformative tool for observing nanoparticles in their native, fluid environment with nanometre spatial resolution and millisecond temporal ...

Researchers have developed a new technique to view living mammalian cells. The team used a powerful laser, called a soft X-ray free electron laser, to emit ultrafast pulses of illumination at the ...

A humble sugar derived from the shells of shrimp and crabs is giving microbiologists a new window into the inner workings of yeast cells. In a study published in Applied Microbiology and ...

Researchers have figured out a missing piece of the puzzle of how human cells detect invading viruses and mount an immune ...

In the search for more efficient and sustainable energy generation methods, a class of materials called metal halide perovskites have shown great promise. In the few years since their discovery, novel ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in diseases Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine Key takeaways: Super-resolution ...