In it, the team demonstrated that by spreading apart molecules that had been crowded inside cells, features that would have blurred together under a standard light microscope became separate and ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this ...

We are limiting our judgements, naturally, to creatures we can actually see, but some of the most bizarre living things can only be seen under a powerful microscope. Hidden away from sight ...

My search for answers to these stupendously ambitious questions led me, it now seems inexorably, to mitochondria. This idea ...

In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea.

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this ...

to watch them interact under a microscope; or delete small parts of genes and proteins, to find the specific parts that are crucial and could be targeted with drugs. "We now see a light at the end ...

A doctor demonstrates a model of the human eye [Shutterstock] In normal vision, the function ... as “a microscope for looking at the retina”, uses tiny microdoses of laser light to target ...

Second, the low specimen temperature in the microscope protects macromolecules ... to a good approximation, all parts of the specimen are at the same focus. This means that the image of a thin ...