Researchers showed that impedance flow cytometry can be used to quickly and accurately determine the shape of individual cells. The system was able to operate on both living cells as well as ...

Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) lives in an apartment above a movie theater, where everything is delightfully dingy. Outside her window, a chocolate factory is on fire, prompting her roommate Giles ...

Cells internalizing from the surface of an embryo. Blue: outer surface of two internalizing cells. Green: myosin motors. Red: Plasma membranes (cell boundaries). This is a roundworm (C. elegans) ...

[JBumstead] didn’t want an ordinary microscope. He wanted one that would show the big picture, and not just in a euphemistic sense, either. The problem though is one of resolution. The higher the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – A new type of microscope may give doctors a better idea of how safely and effectively a medication will perform in the body. A Purdue University team developed the microscope ...

Mingling elements of Balinese dance with a propensity for tying himself in knots, Chris Elam interprets inner quandaries and drives as muscular tangles. Yet the body shapes in his choreography are ...

Researchers in the labs at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed an “architected” material that transforms its structure almost immediately to change several physical properties. Alternately, ...

What does soy sauce look like when it’s underneath a microscope? Apparently like golden crystals. Yanping Wang from the Beijing Planetarium took this photo as part of the 46th annual Nikon Small World ...

Ikoma, Japan – Scientists from Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) measured changes in electrical conductivity caused by cells passing through a tiny channel to determine if they were ...