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 ...

With nothing more than a smartphone and less than $10 of trinkets and hardware supplies, students can build their own microscopes. The DIY microscopes can magnify samples up to 175 times with a single ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

In many communities around the world, students’ ability and enthusiasm to pursue STEM fields in their high school and college careers is limited by a lack of resources which prevent them from ...

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 ...

June 9 (UPI) --Researchers in Australia have engineered a new microscope, powered by quantum entanglement, or what Einstein called "spooky interaction," that can observe previously invisible ...