New microscope captures detailed 3-D movies of cells deep within living systems
Our window into the cellular world just got a whole lot clearer.
Our window into the cellular world just got a whole lot clearer.
General Physics
Apr 19, 2018
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Over the last decade, powerful new microscopes have dramatically sharpened biologists' focus on the molecules that animate and propel life. Now, a new imaging platform developed by Eric Betzig and colleagues at the Howard ...
General Physics
Oct 23, 2014
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A smart new microscope has given scientists a front-row seat to the drama of mammalian development.
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 11, 2018
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The complexity of biology can befuddle even the most sophisticated light microscopes. Biological samples bend light in unpredictable ways, returning difficult-to-interpret information to the microscope and distorting the ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 14, 2015
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A new microscope developed at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus is giving scientists a clearer, more comprehensive view of biological processes as they unfold in living animals. The microscope ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 26, 2015
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For the first time, scientists can observe the first two to three days of a mouse embryo's life, as it develops from a fertilised egg up to the stage when it would implant in its mother's uterus, thanks to a new light sheet ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 15, 2015
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Conversations with physicist Ralf Jungmann demand a great deal of concentration. He takes one at a sizzling pace through a world that is inconceivably minute, a world which, according to the laws of optics, is not directly ...
Nanophysics
Aug 8, 2016
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The nervous system of an animal can be studied by cutting it up into thin layers—however this inevitably leads to the destruction of the cellular structures in the tissue. Analyzing complex nerve connections is then hardly ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 26, 2018
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Recent advances in imaging technology are transforming how scientists see the cellular universe, showing the form and movement of once grainy and blurred structures in stunning detail. But extracting the torrent of information ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 20, 2014
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In order to examine tissues under the microscope, they usually have to be cut into thin slices. But it is impossible to analyze whole tissues or living organisms in this way. However, this is exactly what two Mexican research ...
Biotechnology
Mar 15, 2022
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