Powerful new quantitative approaches to developmental biology have emerged that aim at understanding morphogenesis, developmental genetics and their relationship system-wide 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. It is ...

Proteins called H2AX act as "first aid" to DNA, among other roles. For the first time, scientists using the world's most powerful light microscope (the only one of its kind in the Americas) have seen ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 34, No. 10 (Dec., 1947), pp. 545-550 (6 pages) The isolated spinach chloroplast, as studied with the electron microscope, contains some forty to sixty bodies, the ...

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Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory made a big leap in their research into all things small. Within the past few months, scientists there began using what they say is the world’s most ...

Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a specialized imaging technique that looks for a change in the color of intense ...

Protein aggregates associated with neurodegenerative disease have stubbornly resisted researchers’ efforts to get a good look at them. They refuse to crystallize well or yield to standard ...

The neurotransmitter dopamine isn’t just beautiful under polarized light – it’s also a neurotransmitter that can get you high. Photographer Spike Walker just won an award for his breathtaking ...

A microscope that can see up to 1000 individual fermionic atoms has been developed by a team of physicists in the US. Using two laser beams, the research team traps a cloud of potassium atoms in an ...