A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.

Live cell imaging is a technique for studying living cells over time utilizing images captured by time-lapse microscopy. Celloger. Image Credit: Scintica Instrumentation Inc. Real-time imaging of ...

Peking University, Aug 18, 2025: Professor Xi Peng’s team from the College of Future Technology at Peking University has recently developed a triangle structured illumination microscopy (SIM), which ...

Missing the beginning of the film. The film explores the structure and function of plant and animal cells using a microscope. It begins with observing onion cells, highlighting their components such ...

Measurement software Measurement functions (2D, 3D, Time-lapse, Map imaging), Viewing measurement and sampling data, Reporting functions (Image data, Video data), Whole-cell sampling, Intracellular ...

A robust, image-based neurotoxicity assay helps scientists streamline subcellular neuronal analysis with live-cell dyes and high-throughput automated microscopy. Neuronal cell culture models allow ...

Imaging live cells without disrupting their natural behavior or damaging their structures is one key challenge in biomedical optics, and has been tackled in multiple ways. A project at NIST has now ...

Researchers have reported a sample-prior-based approach to point spread function decoupling that improves system ...