New hybrid lens design drastically cuts 3D microscopy costs and complexity
A team led by Raju Tomer, professor of biological sciences at Columbia University, has created a new design…
Stanford’s Revolutionary New Microscope Reveals Living Cells in Stunning Detail
Detail of the laser array that is part of the Interferometric Image Scanning Microscopy technology. Credit: Jim Gensheimer…
Scientists uncover unexpected thermal retention properties inside the cell
Living cells cool much slower than our current understanding of heat conduction can explain, according to new research…
Smaller tetraploid cells drive more aggressive cancer
Megan Sweet slices tumors. A normal day in the lab finds the Virginia Tech graduate student with hands…
Neuroplex pipeline monitors nine neuronal populations in moving mice
Scientists at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI), in collaboration with ZEISS and MetaCell, have developed…
Tracking the aging process across tens of millions of individual cells
While much is mysterious about the aging process, change over time remains its cornerstone. The biological shifts that…
KIT researchers develop contact-free laser technique to rotate microscopic samples
Until now, it has been technically nearly impossible to rotate highly sensitive samples in all directions under a…
Calcium signals in microglia drive anxiety and compulsive behaviors
Researchers had previously discovered a population of immune cells within the brain that can act as accelerators and…
The brain encodes time and space through common neural sequences
If you develop Alzheimer’s disease, you not only lose your sense of time, but you also lose your…
Detailed cell atlas reveals earliest changes in prostate cancer
Prostate cancer affects one in five Australian men, making it the most common cancer in the country. Now,…
New approach tracks metabolic fingerprints of tuberculosis-infected human cells
Researchers from King’s College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique to measure the…
Multicolor electron microscopy reveals proteins and cell architecture at nanoscale resolution
Scientists have developed a new imaging technique that uses a novel contrast mechanism in bioimaging to merge the…