Want to speed brain research? It's all in how you look at it.

Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a broader research community, boosting our understanding of brain function and ...
Your Observer

Local creator of children's microscope works to make science more accessible

Since 1987, Sarasota's Dennis Brock has been producing the Brock Magiscope, which draws from ambient light and minimizes ...
Science X Network

Imaging living cells: First scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator inaugurated

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BioTechniques

Visualizing the invisible: 5 recent breakthroughs in microscopy

Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.
Science Daily

Simple light trick reveals hidden brain pathways in microscopic detail

Microscopic fibers secretly shape how every organ in the body works, yet they’ve been notoriously hard to study—until now. A new imaging technique called ComSLI reveals hidden fiber orientations in ...
The Scientist

If You Could Be a Lab Instrument, Which One Would You Be?

Researchers use laboratory tools every day to help them make groundbreaking discoveries. Read on to find out which ...
Nature

Refurbished microscopes bring new vision to African science

When Juliet Nnenda Olayinka learned that her university in south-western Nigeria had been selected to receive a research-grade microscope, she felt a surge of hope. After months preparing her ...
EurekAlert!

Fly's brain under a microscope (IMAGE)

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