Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.
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Standard 3D printers enable super-resolution microscopy with custom optics under $1
Researchers have demonstrated that consumer-grade 3D printers and inexpensive materials can produce advanced optical ...
Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) have developed an innovative microscopy technique capable of improving the observation of living cells. The study, ...
Microscopes have long been scientists’ eyes into the unseen, revealing everything from bustling cells to viruses and nanoscale structures. However, even the most powerful optical microscopes have been ...
Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...
Researchers from the Physical Chemistry and Theory departments at the Fritz Haber Institute have found a new way to image layers of boron nitride that are only a single atom thick. This material is ...
Artistic visualization of XLuminA's automated optical discovery process. The setup shows laser beams being guided through a network of optical elements including beam splitters, spatial light ...
A fully open-source platform provides a compact rheometer that can be easily combined with optical microscopy, allowing ...
Constructed with precision optical lenses, high-quality materials, a variety of illumination choices and a trinocular eyepiece tube, Celestron Labs has created a promising instrument for advanced ...
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