A stunning photograph of a fluorescent turtle embryo under a microscope has scooped the top prize in this year's Nikon Small World photomicrography competition, which celebrates photographs taken ...

Scientists have long used fluorescent dyes—which emit light—to research cell structures and activities. By attaching ...

Engineers are developing their FlatScope as a fluorescent microscope able to capture three-dimensional data and produce images from anywhere within the field. Lenses are no longer necessary for ...

Imagine you're a PhD student with a fluorescent microscope and a sample of live bacteria. What's the best way use these resources to obtain detailed observations of bacterial division from the sample?

Fish out of water. Scientists captured a zebrafish embryo’s development over 12 hours using a specially designed microscope and a non-destructive technique called light-sheet imaging. The purple ...

He used a confocal microscope to peer at the 0.12-inch (3 mm) embryonic hand, which he prepared with whole-mount fluorescent staining and tissue clearing, which turned the tissues transparent.

These stunning images show the world from under a microscope. From spines on neurons to pollen on an insect’s eye, the winners of Nikon’s Small World photo contest offer a kaleidoscopic ...

The winning images from Nikon's Small World Photomicrography Competition 2022 include an embryonic gecko hand, a slime mold and a dinosaur bone.

So far, the articles in the Basic Microscopy Series, 1,2,3 have described the components of a microscope and how they affect the quality of images. It’s important to understand how a microscope works ...

Intelligent microscopes for detecting rare biological events Date: September 11, 2022 Source: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Summary: Biophysicists have developed control software that ...

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In their paper, the investigators concluded, “Compared with NIR fluorescent dyes, miRFP718nano can be specifically expressed in tissues through genetic encoding, does not need complex exogenous ...