Diagnosing cancer and selecting the appropriate therapy depend crucially on how well experts understand the processes in ...

Current techniques for imaging cells are limited to investigating a handful of different molecule types within a cell at one time. But being able to better measure molecular signals, and how cells ...

A glass plate, a delicate tube and an oil bath are all that is required: thanks to a new method, researchers at ETH Zurich ...

A close-up of the magnetic encoding device before it was attached. The atomic beam enters the device through the hollow white ceramic tube shown. Microscope images could be obtained much more quickly ...

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have achieved a significant breakthrough by employing scatterometry, a technique ...

A team of researchers at the University of Victoria (UVic) have achieved an advance in electron microscopy that will allow scientists to visualize atomic-scale structures with unprecedented clarity ...

Sneezes, rain clouds, and ink jet printers: They all produce or contain liquid droplets so tiny it would take several billion of them to fill a liter bottle. Measuring the volume, motion and contents ...

The fascinating world of bacteria that live as symbionts or parasites in animal hosts often remains a mystery to researchers. A research team has made a breakthrough that provides insights into this ...