Stretching protein samples in all directions pulls molecules farther apart, allowing them to be visualized using only light ...

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Single molecule localization microscopy (SMLM) allows deciphering the nanoscale organization and dynamics of biomolecules in their native environment with unprecedented resolution. While SMLM was ...

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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have shown for the first time that expensive aberration-corrected microscopes are no longer required to achieve record-breaking ...

Researchers developed a new smartphone-based digital holographic microscope that enables precision 3D measurements. The highly portable and inexpensive microscope could help bring 3D measurement ...

Nearly 100 years ago, a seemingly simple discovery revolutionized the microscope. The introduction of phase contrast, which garnered a Nobel Prize in 1953, brought into clear view structures inside ...

Imagine owning a camera so powerful it can take freeze-frame photographs of a moving electron—an object traveling so fast it could circle the Earth many times in a matter of a second. Researchers at ...

Listed in the Guinness World Records, this tiny electric motor needs a special kind of microscope capable of making out a single atom to be seen.