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

To demonstrate the method, the team printed a range of tiny shapes, including a 10-micrometer elephant, laboratory logos, ...

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 ...

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

Researchers were able to control the growth of thin, branching networks that support cellular structure and help cells function. The networks, called microtubules, can exert force and precisely ...

Jack Challoner, Gills of a fish-like invertebrate (all images courtesy Jack Challoner, from ‘The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life‘) In 1665, when British polymathic scientist Robert ...

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 ...

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