WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University's structural biology group received a $2 million grant to purchase a state-of-the-art electron microscope that will enhance the study of complex biological ...

Olympus FLUOVIEW FVMPE-RS Multiphoton Microscope Series Adds Two New Systems for Imaging Deep, Rapidly Changing Biological Specimens Olympus has announced the release of two new configurations in its ...

A mouse’s heart beats roughly 600 times each minute. With every beat, blood pumping through vessels jiggles the brain and other organs. That motion doesn’t trouble the mouse, but it does pose a ...

Astronomers developed a 'guide star' adaptive optics technique to obtain the most crystal-clear and precise telescopic images of distant galaxies, stars and planets. Now a team of scientists are ...

Research led by scientists at Washington State University has revealed insights on how plants form a microscopic landscape of proteins crucial to photosynthesis, the basis of Earth's food and energy ...

Imaging Modalities for Biological and Preclinical Research provides the first all-inclusive collection of imaging techniques used in biological and preclinical research. (Courtesy: IOP Publishing) ...

Scientists have combined two different microscope technologies to create sharper images of rapidly moving processes inside a cell. Scientists at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and ...

Imagine you're a PhD student with a fluorescent microscope and a sample of live bacteria. What's the best way use these resources to obtain detailed observations of bacterial division from the sample?

You’ve probably seen images of scientists peering down a microscope, looking at objects invisible to the naked eye. Indeed, microscopes are indispensable to our understanding of life. They are just as ...

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have developed a new “self-driving” microscope that addresses two major challenges in microscopy: imaging living cells or organisms at radically different ...

Life is pretty interesting, and at the microscopic scale, it can also be beautiful, strange, intriguing, frightening and gross. The winning photos and videos from this year's Olympus BioScapes ...