WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University's structural biology group received a $2 million grant to purchase a state-of-the-art electron microscope that will enhance the study of complex biological ...

A new era in structural biology is coming to UC Davis, and it is already yielding discoveries. It’s called cryoelectron microscopy, or cryo-EM, and it allows biologists to capture three-dimensional ...

Cryogenic microscopy at Diamond Light Source enables high-resolution, correlative imaging of cells under near-physiological ...

With a so-called cryo plasma-FIB (Plasma Focused Ion Beam) scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator, Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany) is expanding its research infrastructure with a ...

Biophysicists have developed control software that optimizes how fluorescence microscopes collect data on living samples. Their control loop, used to image mitochondrial and bacterial sites of ...

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KALAMAZOO, Mich.—When faced with a scientific mystery, Western Michigan University doctoral candidate Samantha Hack cannot help but try to solve it. A detective in the biological sciences currently ...

June 9 (UPI) --Researchers in Australia have engineered a new microscope, powered by quantum entanglement, or what Einstein called "spooky interaction," that can observe previously invisible ...

Imagine you’re a PhD student with a fluorescent microscope and a sample of live bacteria. What’s the best way use these resources to obtain detailed observations of bacterial division from the sample?