A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

Abstract: Conjunctival goblet cells (CGCs) are specialized mucin-secreting epithelial cells, playing key roles for ocular surface homeostasis. Their examination is important for diagnosing various ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in diseases Katarina Zimmer, Knowable Magazine Innovative techniques are helping ...

Biologists are very interested in how proteins, lipids and other compounds are organized and interact in systems. Very few organizational details can be gained by using standard transmission-based ...

It has been over 60 years since Osamu Shimomura et al. discovered Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) 1. Since then, the color palette for fluorescent proteins has been extended to span blue through to ...

How to take still and video images of your favorite specimens: from attaching a camera to choosing a digital camera that photographs directly. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

In bacteria, cell division is intimately linked to the architecture of the outer cell envelope. In Deinococcus radiodurans, a bacterium well-known for its remarkable radiation-resistance, the cell ...

Center for Complex and Active Materials, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-2025, United States of America Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of ...

Plant cells are surrounded by an intricately structured protective coat called the cell wall. It’s built of cellulose microfibrils intertwined with polysaccharides like hemicellulose or pectin. We ...

In the companion article, Chandler et al. leverage a powerful mathematical model, developed from an image science perspective (10), to describe how both the positions and orientations of fluorophore ...