From embryonic development in fruit flies to a Vermeer made of dog kidneys, the microscopic world has many awesome sights.

Imagine building a traffic surveillance camera that could detect trouble-making cells speeding around in your brain before ...

Observing cellular structures plays a critical role in scientific research, especially in understanding fundamental ...

Between and around the billions of neurons in the human brain is an equally vital scaffold, the extracellular matrix (ECM).

Beta, a signaling protein that holds sway over an astonishing array of cellular processes from embryonic development to ...

New research provides the proof of concept for a pioneering microscopy technique that can penetrate deep brain tissue.

Microscopic organisms such as bacteria and fungi live together in neighborhoods known as microbial consortia. Some of these ...

University of Utah chemists discover how key contrast agent works, paving a way to create new markers needed for correlative ...

Video of cell division occurring in a developing fly embryo named winner of the 14th annual Nikon Small World in Motion ...

To study biomechanical forces in multicellular systems, effective mechanical stimulation is an essential tool. A 3D ...

Microscopic organisms such as bacteria and fungi live together in neighborhoods known as microbial consortia. Some of these ...

Live-cell microscopy routinely provides massive amount of time-lapse images of complex cellular systems under various physiological or therapeutic conditions. However, this wealth of data remains ...