WASHINGTON (AP) — Prick a finger and have the blood checked for parasites — by smartphone? Scientists are turning those ubiquitous phones into microscopes and other medical tools that could help fight ...

The first major benefit of confocal microscopes is the level of detail which can be achieved. With an already impressive horizontal resolution of 0.2 microns and vertical resolution of 0.5 confocal ...

For Yuksel Temiz, photographing extremely tiny subjects is just part of his job as a microelectronics engineer at IBM’s Zurich Research Laboratory. Temiz works on minuscule devices that use ...

Using super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, medical scientists have been able for the first time to see the inner workings of T-cells, the front-line troops that alert our immune system to go on ...

In this interview, Marcel Lucas talks to AZoM about the key benefits of using a digital microscope in comparison to other conventional models on the market. Olympus recently launched the DSX1000 ...

Researchers demonstrate utility of 1.9 g integrated microscope for in vivo and in vitro applications. Scientists have developed a miniaturized integrated fluorescence microscope weighing just 1.9 g, ...

Physicists in Leiden have built a microscope that can measure no fewer than four key properties of a material in a single scan, all with nanoscale precision. The instrument can even examine complete ...

A group of young students has built a high-resolution microscope solely out of LEGO pieces and a smartphone lens. The fully functional, high-resolution microscope with capabilities close to a modern ...

A team of scientists has made a substantial breakthrough in the search for disease-causing mutations with a very cheap DNA microscope. To expand our efforts to find genetic mutations that eventually ...