See also stories tagged with Microscopy
Search results for optical microscopy
Synergy between biology and physics drives cell-imaging technology
Jun 02, 2008 |
4.3 / 5 (6) |
1
Developing techniques to image the complex biological systems found at the sub-cellular level has traditionally been hampered by divisions between the academic fields of biology and physics. However, a new interdisciplinary ...
Seeing the unseen with 'super-resolution' fluorescence microscopy
Biology /
Dec 16, 2008 |
5 / 5 (3) |
0
Thanks to a new "super-resolution" fluorescence microscopy technique, Harvard University researchers have succeeded in resolving the features of cells as miniscule as 20-30 nanometers (nm), an order of magnitude smaller than ...
An easy way to see the world's thinnest material
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 23, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (12) |
1
It's been used to dye the Chicago River green on St. Patrick's Day. It's been used to find latent blood stains at crime scenes. And now researchers at Northwestern University have used it to examine the thinnest material ...
A guide to the invisible: Doubling the fluorescence microscopy resolution (w/Video)
May 06, 2009 |
4 / 5 (2) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- A crucial tool in the evolution of scientific capability in bioscience, the fluorescence microscope has allowed a generation of scientists to study the properties of proteins inside cells. Yet as human capacity ...
Novel computed imaging technique uses blurry images to enhance view
Jan 21, 2007 |
4.7 / 5 (16) |
0
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a novel computational image-forming technique for optical microscopy that can produce crisp, three-dimensional images from blurry, out-of-focus ...
Fluorescent nanoparticles serve as flashlights in living cells
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
May 10, 2007 |
4.1 / 5 (8) |
0
Scientists from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, have successfully exploited the optical properties of fluorescent nanoparticles to broaden the scope of single-cell microscopy. By using nanoparticles, they succeeded ...
PICO and SALVE: Understanding the subatomic world better
Dec 18, 2008 |
4.3 / 5 (3) |
0
Two new high-resolution transmission electron microscopes, co-financed by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation), are set to open up new opportunities for research in physics and materials science. ...
FSU researchers make observing cell functions easier
May 08, 2008 |
3.5 / 5 (2) |
0
Now that the genome (DNA) of humans and many other organisms have been sequenced, biologists are turning their attention to discovering how the many thousands of structural and control genes -- the “worker ...
Phoenix Lander Prepares for Microscopy, Wet Chemistry on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 24, 2008 |
3.7 / 5 (7) |
1
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has delivered a scoop of Martian soil from the "Snow White" trenches to the optical microscope for analysis tomorrow, June 24, the 29th Martian day of the mission, or Sol 29.
Nanoscale Dimensioning Is Fast, Cheap with New Optical Technique
Oct 29, 2008 |
4.6 / 5 (17) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- A novel technique under development at the National Institute of Standards and Technology uses a relatively inexpensive optical microscope to quickly and cheaply analyze nanoscale dimensions ...
Microscopic structure of quantum gases made visible
Oct 20, 2008 |
4.5 / 5 (22) |
1
Scientists at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany, have, for the first time, succeeded in rendering the spatial distribution of individual atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate visible.
New Hybrid Microscope Probes Nano-Electronics
Oct 27, 2006 |
4.2 / 5 (19) |
0
A new form of scanning microscopy that simultaneously reveals physical and electronic profiles of metal nanostructures has been demonstrated at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards ...
Fluorescent proteins illuminating biomedical research
Biology /
Jan 25, 2009 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
Remarkable new tools that spotlight individual cellular molecules are transforming biomedical research. Scientists at the Gruss Lipper Biophotonics Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have ...
Trading carats for nanometers - and defective diamonds for crystal clear microscopy
Mar 02, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (5) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- Large, perfect diamonds are precious to almost all of us but to some scientists, it is the defects that really matter. This is because defects can form nanoscopic color centers, which play ...
A new 'Pyrex' nanoparticle
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 07, 2008 |
4.1 / 5 (11) |
0
Researchers in Switzerland have developed a new method to fabricate borosilicate glass nanoparticles. Used in microfluidic systems, these "Pyrex"-like nanoparticles are more stable when subjected to temperature ...
