Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.
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Standard 3D printers enable super-resolution microscopy with custom optics under $1
Researchers used consumer-grade 3D printers to create sub-$1 optical lenses that enable super-resolution nanoscale biological ...
Microscopes have long been scientists’ eyes into the unseen, revealing everything from bustling cells to viruses and nanoscale structures. However, even the most powerful optical microscopes have been ...
Research on gold nanoparticle-infused borotellurite glasses reveals enhanced nonlinear optical properties, making them ideal ...
From left to right, Albert Suceava, a doctoral student in materials science and engineering, Venkatraman Gopalan, a professor of materials science and engineering, and Saugata Sarker, a graduate ...
Confocal microscopy is a specialized fluorescence imaging technique that scientists use to acquire images at greater resolution than conventional microscopy. 1 In addition to scanning the lateral x ...
PEEM emerges as a key tool for imaging ultra-confined optical fields, offering high sensitivity and minimal disturbance, ...
(a) Schematic of the PC-SRS microscope system for 3D chemical imaging. Inset drawings illustrate the ring-shaped pump beam and Gaussian Stokes beam on the SLM. (b) The distortion-corrected phase ...
A fully open-source platform provides a compact rheometer that can be easily combined with optical microscopy, allowing ...
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