Versatility and miniaturization of imaging systems are of great importance in today's information society. Microscopic imaging techniques have always been indispensable for scientific research and ...

Stretching protein samples in all directions pulls molecules farther apart, allowing them to be visualized using only light ...

Atomic force microscopy, or AFM, is a widely used technique that can quantitatively map material surfaces in three dimensions, but its accuracy is limited by the size of the microscope's probe. A new ...

A team of researchers at the University of Victoria (UVic) have achieved a major breakthrough in electron microscopy that will allow scientists to visualize atomic-scale structures with unprecedented ...

The integrated workflow combines glovebox sample preparation, liquid-nitrogen cold-chain transfer, and Cs-corrected cryo-TEM imaging, enabling continuous protection of air-sensitive materials from ...

In a study published in Science Advances, a team of bioengineering researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed an algorithm known as adaptive intersection maximization, or AIM ...

What is the Diffraction Limit? The diffraction limit is a fundamental barrier in optical microscopy that sets the minimum size of features that can be resolved using conventional light microscopes. It ...

A depth-compensated diffractive optical element photoacoustic microscope enables more uniform photoacoustic imaging across tissue depths.

Understanding when and why a cell dies is fundamental to the study of human development, disease and aging. For neurodegenerative diseases such as Lou Gehrig’s disease, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, ...

Researchers have developed a deep learning algorithm for removing systematic effects from atomic force microscopy images, enabling more precise profiles of material surfaces. Atomic force microscopy, ...