Nearly 100 years ago, a seemingly simple discovery revolutionized the microscope. The introduction of phase contrast, which ...

A team led by Raju Tomer, professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, has created a new design for microscopes ...

Fifteen years ago, physicists worked out a method to increase image contrast by hitting the electron imaging beam with an ultrabright laser. Back then, a laser so bright didn’t exist. Now it does, and ...

A new study introduces affordable HySIL lens technology and modular devices that deliver high-resolution 3D tissue imaging.

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have shown for the first time that expensive aberration-corrected microscopes are no longer required to achieve record-breaking ...

Confocal microscopy is a specialized fluorescence imaging technique that scientists use to acquire images at greater resolution than conventional microscopy. 1 In addition to scanning the lateral x ...

Example of super-resolution microscopy: The image shows how the Discrete Molecular Imaging (DMI) technology visualizes densely packed individual targets that are just 5 nanometer apart from each other ...