You don’t have to be a numismatist to enjoy looking at coins under a microscope. An enthusiast will be able to find pockets ...

In the world of microorganisms, microbes compete for turf, spew chemicals at foes, and sometimes exploit the microscopic ...

Our cells rely on microscopic highways and specialized protein vehicles to move everything—from positioning organelles to ...

Cells are the smallest units of life. But even within the same tissue or organ, they are not all identical. New variations arise continuously during cell proliferation. While genetic mutations alter ...

In a 2014 Nature paper, Ralston described this awkward process — trogocytosis, or “cell nibbling.” It was a revelation at the ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (small rod-shaped bacteria) swarms toward and around a neighboring Cryptococcus neoformans (round yeast) colony. The thin fluid halo surrounding the yeast enables the bacteria ...

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich have developed a new microscope that significantly ...