Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have created an “optical sieve” capable of detecting minute nanoplastic particles. Functioning much like a test strip, this innovation is designed to provide ...

Gears have powered the world for millennia, from clock machines to car engines. But miniaturizing them to microscopic ...

Researchers have developed a new type of microscope that can acquire extremely large, high-resolution pictures of non-flat ...

A joint team from the University of Stuttgart in Germany and the University of Melbourne in Australia has developed a new ...

Our remarkable ability to perform complex tasks—such as thinking, observing, and touch—stems from proteins, the tiny nanometer-sized molecules in the body. Despite decades of research, our ...

Cryogenic optical microscopy uncovers multiple conformations of PIEZO1 in cell membranes, offering atomic-scale insights into how cells sense force. The team focused on PIEZO1, a mechanosensitive ion ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in diseases Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine Innovative techniques are helping ...

Microscopes have long been scientists’ eyes into the unseen, revealing everything from bustling cells to viruses and nanoscale structures. However, even the most powerful optical microscopes have been ...

Biologists are very interested in how proteins, lipids and other compounds are organized and interact in systems. Very few organizational details can be gained by using standard transmission-based ...

Effect of co-inheritance of KMT2C germline mutations on the phenotype of MSI-L/MSS Lynch syndrome patients. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Recent advancements in 3D fluorescence microscopy have significantly enhanced the ...