Super-resolution microscopy can come in different forms, but structured illumination microscopy (SIM) is one of the more common approaches. In this technique, grid projections are used to increase the ...

Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a ...

Light microscopy is one of the most essential technologies in life science research. Advances in optoelectronic detectors and ...

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 ...

Breaking the limits of light microscopy by using fluorescence has won three scientists the 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Eric Betzig, a physicist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia ...

A microscope is a very important instrument in the laboratory. It is necessary to focus your microscope when viewing specimens to perform a proper analysis and give an accurate diagnosis. This video ...

Olympus Corporation today announced the addition of the Alpha³ light sheet microscope to its Life Sciences line of high-quality and high-performance optics products. This announcement is the result of ...

New funding: Lightspeed Microscopy, a Seattle startup spun out of the University of Washington, raised $4 million in a Series A financing round led by Dynamk Capital. Lightspeed is developing an ...