Throughout history, humans have endeavoured to see things that were too small to be perceived with the naked eye in order to understand our complex world. The first magnifier constructed for ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

What does the inside of a cell really look like? In the past, standard microscopes were limited in how well they could answer this question. Now, researchers have succeeded in developing a microscope ...

Life begins with a single fertilized cell that gradually transforms into a multicellular organism. This process requires ...

CAPTION: (Top) Condensins seem to act as a molecular crosslinkers to make loops. (Bottom, left) Condensins (red) locate around chromosome center. (Bottom, right) Nucleosomes around the periphery ...

We need microscopes to study most cells. Microscopes are used to produce magnified images. There are two main types of microscope: Glass was developed by the Romans in the first century. Since then, ...

Bring the slide back into focus using the fine focus adjustment. If you do not succeed, go back to low power and re-focus and start again. Care must be taken when looking down the microscope that the ...

Our window into the cellular world just got a whole lot clearer. By combining two imaging technologies, scientists can now watch in unprecedented 3-D detail as cancer cells crawl, spinal nerve ...

Medical engineers have developed a hand-held microscope that can differentiate cancerous cells from healthy ones much faster than pathology labs Dennis Wise/University of Washington Medical engineers ...