Prototype microscope teaches itself the best illumination settings for diagnosing malaria Engineers at Duke University have developed a microscope that adapts its lighting angles, colors and... Read more
New microscope has more than 100 times larger field of view for studying brain activity A newly developed microscope is providing scientists with a greatly enhanced tool to study how neuro... Read more
When women undergo lumpectomies to remove breast cancer, doctors try to remove all the cancerous tissue while conserving as much of the healthy breast tissue as possible. But currently there... Read more
Device shown capable of reading and writing neural signals at the spatial and temporal scale of natural brain activity, could eventually serve as “Rosetta Stone” to crack the code on how bra... Read more
High-speed microscope images entire living organisms at high resolution A new microscope developed at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus is giving scientists... Read more
Lens Could Give Schools, Clinics Low-Cost Alternative to Conventional Equipment Researchers at the University of Houston have created an optical lens that can be placed on an inexpensive sma... Read more
The researchers have built a lens attachment that turns a smartphone camera into a dermascope Because they’re so inexpensive, the lenses can be used in a variety of applications, inclu... Read more
The lens he developed is now as powerful as the research microscopes used in the lab Imagine yourself examining species of coral in Fiji. Looking at fungi and parasites in grass seeds. Follo... Read more
“You had a roomful of scientists, including two Nobel Prize winners, staring at this with wonder” Manu Prakash keeps a map on his bedroom wall that imagines what the world would look like if... Read more
“With our technique, we can see processes as they happen and we don’t obstruct their normal behavior.” Living cells are ready for their close-ups, thanks to a new imaging technique tha... Read more
Mathematical image processing creates a 3D movie of any scene, using just two frames from a stationary camera or microscope Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Scien... Read more
Caltech engineers show how to make cost-effective, ultra-high-performance microscopes Engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have devised a method to convert a relativ... Read more
Bodelin Technologies has unveiled a new product that turns your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad into a fully functional microscope. The microscope itself has precision optical glass and supports... Read more
Just remove the lens . . . Researchers at the University of Sheffield have created what sounds impossible – even nonsensical: an experimental electron microscope without lenses that no... Read more