microscopy, cell & molecular biology

Several labs have reported the formation of bacterial nanotubes under different, often contrasting conditions. What are these structures and why are they so hard to reproduce?

The MIT physicist has demonstrated the importance of clusters of RNA polymerase and other transcription mediators in regulating RNA production.

A fluorescent image of murine hippocampal cells is the winning microscopy image from more than 400 submissions from 65 countries for Olympus’s 2019 Image of the Year Award.

The long-time Marine Biological Laboratory scientist was known for using his own hand-built microscopes to image the dynamics of live cells.

Membraneless organelles appear highly sensitive to ion concentrations in their environment.

Selected Images of the Day from the-scientist.com

DNA microscopy pinpoints the locations of transcripts by laying a grid of tags over the molecules and labeling each connection.

See a mouse organoid imaged using two-photon microscopy.

Researchers are using artificial intelligence to pick out the features of brightfield microscopy images.

Pancreatic cells associated with cancer resemble celestial bodies as revealed by microscopy.

Lineage tracing reveals how cells help the salamanders regrow chopped-off limbs.

With open-source software and Lego hardware, researchers have created a low-cost, automated method for cellular fluorescence microscopy.

The cells on one side of each wool fiber are longer than the cells on the other, researchers find. 

Peering through a microscope since age 14, Joseph Gall, now 89, still sees wonder at the other end.

This year’s list of winners celebrates both large leaps and small (but important) steps in life science technology.

Since The Scientist published its first issue in October 1986, life-science research has transformed from a manual and often tedious task to a high-tech, largely automated process of unprecedented efficiency.

An improved tissue-clearing technique makes whole animals transparent.

Associate Professor in Molecular Cell & Developmental Biology at the University of Texas at Austin, John Wallingford, makes his living using cutting-edge microscopic techniques to watch developmental events unfold in real time.