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

Graduate student Oscar Azucena (left) and undergraduate Ziah Dean helped develop the adaptive optics system for a wide-field microscope at UCSC. Photo courtesy of J. Kubby. Researchers at the ...

Non-invasive microscopic techniques such as optical coherence microscopy and two-photon microscopy are commonly used for in vivo imaging of living tissues. When light passes through turbid materials ...

Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a new way of mapping cell populations and visualizing how biomolecules, including different sequences of DNA and RNA, are organized ...

Cell mass and chemical composition are important aggregate cellular properties that are especially relevant to physiological processes, such as growth control and tissue homeostasis. Despite their ...

Researchers invented a new type of microscope called reflective matrix microscope, which uses adaptive optics techniques. Non-invasive microscopic techniques such as optical coherence microscopy and ...