Winners of the Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition captured insects, cancer cells, cat claws and more ...

In the impressive new video, a mature mouse egg cell is explosively expelled from its fluid-filled sac — known as a follicle — into a lab dish. The team observed follicles that had been isolated from ...

(Editor’s note: Azoospermia, defined as the absence of ... They cut into the testicles, examine the tubules under a microscope and remove samples of tissue. An embryologist then searches for ...

Mori explains that with industry-leading levels of resolution, Hitachi High-Technologies’ field-emission scanning electron microscopes (FE-SEM) played a key role in the success of the first ...

The team found that three proteins on the sperm join to form a sort of key that unlocks the egg, allowing the sperm to attach ...

Let's take a look at how to observe cells under a microscope. No prizes for guessing the first thing you'll need: a microscope. But don't worry if you don't have one of your own. Ask your school ...

Pioneer Fellow Hao Liu uses lasers to produce microfilament structures to grow biological tissue in the lab for research and ...

Discover a microscopic world with one of the best microscopes for students and young scientists, without emptying your wallet — the top picks ahead of Black Friday. The best microscopes for ...

Our oceans are changing fast. Find out how Museum collections are helping scientists to understand the future of marine life. Around 95% of the Earth's oceans are still unexplored - in fact, we know ...

Handling tiny surface mount components and inspecting PCBs is a lot easier with a nice stereo microscope, but because of their cost and bulk, most hobbyists have to do without. At best they might ...

While I have seen optics turn these cameras into pretty good microscopes, my setup added nothing more than a phone tripod, and will get you by in a pinch. With all this very usable and capable ...