[Chris Doble] has high ambitions: he’s making his own scanning-electron microscope, and as the first step he’s built a high-vacuum system. This required its own controller to manage the various ...

Stretching protein samples in all directions pulls molecules farther apart, allowing them to be visualized using only light ...

A new study presents a fluorescence imaging-based technique to measure the activity rates of individual scramblase proteins.

What does the inside of a cell really look like? In the past, standard microscopes were limited in how well they could answer this question. Now, researchers have succeeded in developing a microscope ...

I built a 3D printed, scanning laser confocal microscope so I could collect 3D surface topology and profilometry data! The ...

Gene editing of plant DNA has the potential to produce crops with increased performance and resilience, but it can take a ...

It's really easy to make yourself.