Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.

Stimulated Emission Depletion (STED) microscopy is a super-resolution imaging technique that overcomes the diffraction limit of conventional optical microscopy. It enables the visualization of ...

Confocal microscopy is a specialized fluorescence imaging technique that scientists use to acquire images at greater resolution than conventional microscopy. 1 In addition to scanning the lateral x ...

Researchers have developed a high-speed 3D imaging microscope that can capture detailed cell dynamics of an entire small whole organism at once. The ability to image 3D changes in real time over a ...

Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...

Electron microscope (EM) has revolutionized our ability to visualize the intricate details inside cells. The advancement to 3D electron microscopy, known as volume EM (vEM), has further expanded this ...

Researchers have developed a new two-photon fluorescence microscope that captures high-speed images of neural activity at cellular resolution. By imaging much faster and with less harm to brain tissue ...

FlowCam uses Flow Imaging Microscopy (FIM) to characterize particles in liquid biopharmaceutical formulations. There are several important features of FIM instruments to keep in mind if you are ...

Digital pathology is a digital image-based practice of pathology that includes acquisition, management, and interpretation of pathological data produced from a digitized glass slide. Digital pathology ...