There are now various attachments that allow you to capture microscope-scale images with your smartphone. Unfortunately, however, the limitations of the phone's lens and image sensor mean that those ...

The World Health Organization estimates that 1.3 million people worldwide died from tuberculosis in 2008. It’s definitely a disease to be taken seriously, so when people in remote locations are being ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Upton-based research facility, broke ground recently for its Laboratory of BioMolecular Structure. The facility, which should be running fully in 2020, will serve ...

Following the recent launch of its inverted microscope, ioLight has introduced its new fluorescence instrument. This highly-advanced microscope has been designed to provide a compact and affordable ...

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The science of small just got a lot bigger at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with the arrival of the world’s most powerful microscope. The new $27 million microscope has a resolution of half of ...

Dr. Steven Finkbeiner's microscope is one of a kind. It occupies a small room -- the size of a large closet -- down a hallway humming with refrigerators, freezers and centrifuges at the new laboratory ...

Germany’s Max Planck Society and the microscope maker Leica Microsystems have joined forces to commercialize a new technique to allow optical microscopes to look at even smaller objects than was ...

If you walked into a classroom laboratory you would probably see a cupboard full of microscopes, used maybe just a handful of times a year, old but still in good shape, clean and ready to go. Then ...

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