Unlike traditional microscopes that use light or lenses ... First, short DNA sequence tags called unique molecular identifiers (UMIs) are added to cells. They attach to DNA and RNA molecules and begin ...

At the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, scientists are using a cutting-edge microscope, the first of its kind in the world, to image whole cells in 3-D with the penetrating power of x-rays. The ...

Peering inside cells has been an integral part of biology ever since the 17th century, when cells were discovered under a microscope. But even with advances in light and electron microscopy ...

DNA microscope image of the same cells, showing genetic material. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Almost unheard of in this era of collaborations that are often larger than a soccer team, ...

In a bid to better understand how cancer cells power their explosive growth and spread, scientists at Johns Hopkins Medicine ...

A new invention—a robotic microscope—is opening the way for scientists to track changes in cells over time as genes are expressed and the resulting proteins go into action. Tracking this ...

The microscope works like an MRI machine for cells, taking images from all angles which can be pieced together into a 3D image. The cell is illuminated by a rotating laser which produces a ...

A new kind of microscope has been invented that is able to non-invasively take a three dimensional look inside living cells with stunning results (Images courtesy of Betzig, Planchon, and Gao) 9 / 9 ...

This microscope is not only able to capture high resolution images of molecules and cells, it can do so rapidly and in complete three dimensions. And all these while minimizing damage to the cells ...

A noninvasive, polarized light microscope invented at the Marine Biological Laboratory played a crucial role in a recent breakthrough in embryonic stem-cell research aimed at developing medical ...

Cryo-ET uses electron microscopes to study flash-frozen samples, like cells. Combining the two techniques immediately raised problems the researchers needed to overcome.