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.