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

With the scanning electron microscope (SEM), scientists in a range of fields—from biology to materials science to microelectronics—can analyze the surface of objects with a resolution approaching ...

DR. CARPENTER is to be congratulated on the recent publication of the sixth edition of his very useful work on the Microscope and its Revelations, the more especially as now having the command of his ...

Researchers have incorporated a swept illumination source into an open-top light-sheet microscope to enable improved optical sectioning over a larger area of view. The advance makes the technique more ...

Despite having extensive research about living and non-living things, mankind is still barely touching the surface of science, and there are many questions still left unanswered. In order to answer ...

AMONG scientific instruments, the microscope is at the present time one of the most extensively employed, either for commercial or scientific purposes. In nearly all branches of science it has now ...

This seminar provides an overview of fluorescence microscopy in cancer research and other cell-based applications in the biosciences discovery workflow. In comparison with phase contrast and ...

A microscope’s job is to magnify the minuscule world around us. We can observe the tiniest objects, organisms and materials, and investigate their form, texture and composition, to witness what would ...

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