A simple light-based method is uncovering hidden fiber networks inside the brain and body, even in tissue slides over 100 years old.

QIScope: When imaging low protein levels in live cells on the high-sensitivity QIScope, bioluminescence (blue) significantly outperforms fluorescence (green). (Courtesy: Ruyu Ma - Helmholtz Munich) A ...

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Researchers have incorporated a swept illumination source into an open-top light-sheet microscope to enable improved optical sectioning over a larger area of view. The advance makes the technique more ...

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1 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Microtechnology (IMT), Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany 2 Faculty of Life Sciences, Zoological Institute, Technische ...

Researchers have shown that expensive aberration-corrected microscopes are no longer required to achieve record-breaking microscopic resolution. Researchers at the University of Illinois at ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have shown for the first time that expensive aberration-corrected microscopes are no longer required to achieve record-breaking ...