One of the biggest problems in looking at biological tissues through a microscope is the lack of contrast. Basically, everything, with the exception of red blood cells, is transparent to visible light ...

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 ...

In a breakthrough for research fields as diverse as diabetes, atherosclerosis and biofuels, the mass, concentration, volume, and surface area of individual lipid droplets have been measured in live, ...