Germany’s Max Planck Society and the microscope maker Leica Microsystems have joined forces to commercialize a new technique to allow optical microscopes to look at even smaller objects than was ...

Imaging of a rat heart created using Alpenglow Biosciences technology. (Photo courtesy of Azalia M. Martinez Jaimes and Karen M. Gonzalez of the Red Horse Lab at Stanford University) Seattle-based ...

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Constructed with precision optical lenses, high-quality materials, a variety of illumination choices and a trinocular eyepiece tube, Celestron Labs has created a promising instrument for advanced ...

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When you’re a high schooler who built a semiconductor fab in your garage, what’s next on your agenda? Why, adding a scanning electron microscope to your lab, naturally. How silly of you to ask. When ...

As competitions like Nikon Small World demonstrate, there's a lot going on around us that we can't see. Cheap desktop microscopes can provide access to such secret worlds for regular folks like you ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently discovered that adding a modified form of the superabsorbent chemical used in disposable diapers can expand samples of brain tissues ...

Accurate measurement results depend on regular microscope calibration to ensure consistency and reliability across scientific and industrial use.