View the top three winners of this year’s Nikon Small World in Motion Competition.

From a mass photometer to improved breath biopsy probes, these new products are poised for scientific success.

Artist Carol Roullard specializes in microcrystal photography.

Two-photon imaging captures chemical signaling between live mouse neurons on a millisecond timescale.

Microscope-mounted magnets with computerized feedback control allow precision manipulations of intracellular objects.

Optimized tweezers enable precise 3-D manipulations of a cell’s organelles.

A virtual exhibition of C.R. Percival’s slides reveals the natural world up close.

James Herrick, a Chicago doctor, was the first to describe sickled red blood cells in a patient of African descent.

The list of imports subject to additional taxes include products used in research, but the effect of the trade dispute is still unclear.

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

The tools researchers used to study how this amphipod’s limbs develop could help inform our understanding of cell lineages and fates.

Optical engineers have developed a portable field microscope that could aid the diagnosis of diseased cells.

A clever twist on a super-resolution microscopy technique improves the temporal resolution of single-molecule tracking. 

From confocal fluorescence microscopy to super-resolution and live 3-D imaging, microscopes have changed rapidly since 1986.

The newest life-science products making waves in labs and clinics

A new microscope allows researchers to watch biological processes at the cellular level in 3-D in living animals. 

Submissions are officially open for this year’s Top 10 Innovations contest.

A PhD student jury-rigs a microscopy system for high-throughput cell motility assays.

To improve the reach of optical microscopy, researchers are enlarging the biological features they wish to view.