(Nanowerk News) The state-of-the-art technique for seeing atoms – transmission electron microscopy (TEM) – will become an important tool for chemical analysis over the next decade as instrument ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A new type of microscope may give doctors a better idea of how safely and effectively a medication will perform in the body. A Purdue University team developed the microscope ...

Researchers have developed an optical toolbox to build microscopes for a few hundred euros that deliver high-resolution images comparable to commercial microscopes that cost up to a thousand times ...

A benchtop commercial microscope system designed to acquire very low-light bioluminescence images has now been introduced in North America by Olympus America. The LV200 stand-alone microscope system ...

Your collection of articles on microscopy (Nature 459, 629–639; 2009) rightly celebrates the success of innovators in the field. Unfortunately, the supply of new technologies is being threatened by ...

Catching viruses before they spread is hard. They often originate in remote areas, and spread by insects. Further, location makes it difficult to analyze blood samples for infections in order to treat ...

For those of you who haven’t visited the websites of Carl Zeiss or Nikon lately, fluorescent microscopes are expensive. Typically, microscopes of the sort required by pathologists to make diagnosis ...

An engineer from IBM’s research unit in Switzerland has built a $300 microscope out of LEGO bricks and other miscellaneous parts. And the results are so good, IBM Research has published them. In a ...

For the first time, labs around the world can 3D print their own precision microscopes, thanks to a new open-source design. For the first time, labs around the world can 3D print their own precision ...

Modern microscopes used for biological imaging are expensive, are located in specialized laboratories and require highly qualified staff. To research novel, creative approaches to address urgent ...