Influenza viruses are among the most likely triggers of future pandemics. A research team has developed a method that can be used to study the interaction of viruses with host cells in unprecedented ...

Some say it was Cornelis Drebbel, while others say Hans Lippershey. Galileo Galilei’s compound microscope is probably the most well-known ancient magnifier. Regardless of who created the device ...

A new microscope just arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) to help study life's adaptability under extreme conditions using an innovative imaging technique. The Extant Life Volumetric ...

There are lots of uses for a microscope, but using them to get a closer look at small creatures such as insects can be truly startling especially for those that don't seem all that strange in day ...

Dramatic improvements in signal yield and contrast ratio herald a step change in imaging efficiency, allowing you to observe nano scale interactions of life science samples at different ...

A microscope image from an experiment conducted ... A study, published today in Science, uses laboratory experiments to show that the iron-depleted, oxidized chemistry typical of Earth’s ...

Spirulina under a microscope. Lumen Bioscience researchers engineered spirulina to biomanufacture a natural enzyme that they've shown destroys methanogens, the microbes in cows' rumen that ...

In a study published in Science Advances, a research team led by Prof. Liu Chengbo from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced ...

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Sweet mouth-watering fruits provide us with a healthy source of food, but that is not the reason why plants produce them. Fruit, and the seeds they protect, are crucial to species' survival. A new ...