Researchers have shown that consumer-grade 3D printers and low-cost materials can be used to produce multi-element optical ...
Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells ...
Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.
Confocal microscopy is a specialized fluorescence imaging technique that scientists use to acquire images at greater resolution than conventional microscopy. 1 In addition to scanning the lateral x ...
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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 ...
Example of super-resolution microscopy: The image shows how the Discrete Molecular Imaging (DMI) technology visualizes densely packed individual targets that are just 5 nanometer apart from each other ...
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