Nearly 100 years ago, a seemingly simple discovery revolutionized the microscope. The introduction of phase contrast, which ...

In a landmark achievement in biological imaging, researchers at Biohub and the University of California, Berkeley today ...

Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley physicists' new technique offers detailed images of the small molecules and cell structures that ...

Fifteen years ago, physicists worked out a method to increase image contrast by hitting the electron imaging beam with an ...

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A new microscope method reveals details that were difficult to see before, helping researchers study proteins, cells, and ...

A home machinist and microscopy enthusiast has documented a detailed technical conversion of a ...

In a landmark achievement in biological imaging, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Biohub today ...

Explore how the National Lab of the Rockies uses advanced microscopy, cryogenic workflows, and automation to connect ...

With the inventions of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in 1931 and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) shortly after in 1937, scientists gained an unprecedented ultrastructural view of the ...

TEM works by transmitting a beam of electrons through an ultra-thin specimen. As the electrons interact with the specimen, they are scattered or transmitted, producing an image that is magnified and ...

A scanning electron microscope image of a supergiant Euplotes gigatrox cell. (Ben Larson/Samuel Lord) A newly discovered ...