Avalanching Nanoparticles Break Barriers to Imaging Cells in Real Time
Study co-led by Berkeley Lab and Columbia Engineering could lead to simple, high-resolution bioimaging in real time by overcoming a fundamental property of light. Since…
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Holographic X-ray Nano-Tomography Reveals How Mother-of-Pearl Self-Assembles Into a Perfect Structure
Mollusks build shells to protect their soft tissues from predators. Nacre, also known as the mother of pearl, has an intricate, highly regular structure that…
New Electron Microscopy Technique Offers First Real-Time Look at Previously Hidden Processes
Researchers can now fill in missing information about nanoscale polymerization and “smart” materials for medicine and the environment. Northwestern researchers have developed a new microscopy…
Groundbreaking Experiment Tracks the Real-Time Transport of Individual Molecules
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, or CNMS, contributed to a groundbreaking experiment published in Science that tracks the real-time transport of…
Fluorescence “Lifetime” Microscopy Technique Uses Frequency Combs and No Mechanical Parts to Observe Dynamic Biological Phenomena
Comb of a Lifetime: A New Method for Fluorescence Microscopy Fluorescence microscopy is widely used in biochemistry and life sciences because it allows scientists to…
See Inside Living Cells in Greater Detail Using New Microscopy Technique
Upgrade to quantitative phase imaging can increase image clarity by expanding dynamic range. Experts in optical physics have developed a new way to see inside…
Frozen: Cutting-Edge Technology Reveals Structures Within Cells That Previously Could Only Be Guessed
New methods enable scientists at IST Austria to take a look at the innermost of cells: High-resolution images of deep-frozen cells show structures that previously…
Breakthrough New Imaging Method Views Soil Carbon at Near-Atomic Scales
The Earth’s soils contain more than three times the amount of carbon than is found in the atmosphere, but the processes that bind carbon in…
A Microscope for Everyone: Open-Source Optical Toolbox Delivers High-Resolution Images for Tiny Fraction of the Price
The open-source system from the 3D printer delivers high-resolution images like commercial microscopes at hundreds of times the price. Modern microscopes used for biological imaging…
Innovation Spins Spider Web Architecture Into 3D Biomedical Imaging Technology
Purdue University innovators are taking cues from nature to develop 3D photodetectors for biomedical imaging. The Purdue researchers used some architectural features from spider webs…
Simple New Way to Capture High Quality 3D Images of Live Cells and Organisms
New approach captures multifocus microscopy images with high speeds. Researchers have developed a simple method for simultaneously acquiring images at different depths with a standard…
SOFISM: Microscopy Beyond the Resolution Limit
The Polish-Israeli team from the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw and the Weizmann Institute of Science has made another significant achievement in…
Microscope Lens Inspired by Lighthouses Makes It Easier to Observe Molecular-Level Details of Biological Processes
Custom-fabricated lenses make it easy to attach high-tech microscopes directly to cell incubators. An optical device that resembles a miniaturized lighthouse lens can make it…
New Algorithm Sharpens Focus of World’s Most Powerful Microscopes – Improves Cryo-EM 3D Molecular Structure Maps
Scientists develop a technique that improves the resolution of cryo-electron microscopy. We’ve all seen that moment in a cop TV show where a detective is…
Scientists Uncover Secret of Material for Promising Thermal Imagers: Blow-Up Overheating Instability
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the RAS Institute for Theoretical and Applied Electromagnetics have discovered what makes vanadium dioxide films conduct…
Ultrathin Flat Lenses for High Resolution Imaging Using Monolayer Transition Metal
Lenses are one of the most commonly used optical components in daily life, including eyeglasses, microscopic objectives, magnifying glass, and camera lenses. Conventional lenses are…
ChipScope – A Completely New Strategy Towards Optical Microscopy
For half a millennium, people have tried to enhance human vision by technical means. While the human eye is capable of recognizing features over a…
Biochemical Quantitative Phase Imaging Delivers Unprecedented 3D Images of Live Cells Plus Details of Molecules Inside
No damage caused by strong light, no artificial dyes or fluorescent tags needed. The insides of living cells can be seen in their natural state…
