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Cell & Microbiology Mar 9, 2022

A nanoscale look at coronavirus infection

A human cell being infected by a coronavirus is a crowded place as the virus turns its host into a virus-replicating machine. Now, for the first time, Stanford scientists have used super-resolution light microscopy to sift ...

Optics & Photonics Oct 22, 2020

Researchers develop simple way to capture high quality 3-D images of live cells and organisms

Researchers have developed a simple method for simultaneously acquiring images at different depths with a standard microscope. The new technique can be applied to a variety of microscopy methods, making it useful for a wide ...

Polymers Jan 22, 2019

New moves for polymer chain dynamics

A technique that enables researchers to watch the motion of individual molecules within a polymer has been developed by KAUST: it challenges current thinking about polymer physics and could lead to new materials that can ...

Bio & Medicine Dec 16, 2014

Engineers detect and measure individual DNA molecules using smartphone microscope

Fluorescence microscopes use technology that enables them to accomplish tasks not easy to achieve with normal light microscopes, including imaging DNA molecules to detect and diagnose cancer, nervous system disorders such ...

Biochemistry Jan 24, 2011

New microscopy method opens window on previously unseen cell features

Despite the sophistication and range of contemporary microscopy techniques, many important biological phenomena still elude the precision of even the most sensitive tools. The need for refined imaging methods for fundamental ...

Feb 5, 2009

Measuring molecules to improve drug design

(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO has patented an improved microscopy method for measuring the shapes and sizes of proteins which could help scientists create new pharmaceuticals that are a better match for the proteins they target.

Optics & Photonics Dec 8, 2016

Dipole orientation provides new dimension in super-resolution microscopy

Recently, a new polarization-dipole azimuth-based super-resolution technique has been proposed by a group of researchers in Peking University (China), Tsinghua University (China), and University of Technology Sydney (Australia). ...

Optics & Photonics Nov 4, 2016

New imaging technique stimulates particles to emit laser light, could create higher-resolution images

A new imaging technique developed by scientists at MIT, Harvard University, and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) aims to illuminate cellular structures in deep tissue and other dense and opaque materials. Their method ...

Molecular & Computational biology Dec 8, 2023

Structure of a central component of the human immune system revealed

A central component of the human immune system, the NLRP3 inflammasome plays an important role in fighting off infections. However, its chronic activation is also implicated in a variety of common diseases, such as Alzheimer's, ...

Optics & Photonics Aug 16, 2023

Researchers achieve high-speed super-resolution imaging with a large field of view

Researchers have developed a fluorescence microscope that uses structured illumination for fast super-resolution imaging over a wide field of view. The new microscope was designed to image multiple living cells simultaneously ...

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