Electron microscopy is a powerful tool that produces images of things magnified up to ten million times, but the images it produces are monochromatic. New research from University of California, San ...

Biofilms form when microbes attach to a surface and adhere to each other, often inside of a matrix created by the cells of the microorganisms. These slimy biofilms are interesting to researchers for ...

In a study recently published in the journal Nano Letters, researchers from Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, used frequency-modulated atomic force ...

As technology goes, microscopes are pretty smart, allowing us to examine samples blown up thousands of times their original size. But what if a microscope was able to identify what it was looking at?

An easily assembled smartphone microscope provides new ways of interacting with and learning about common microbes. The open-source device could be used by teachers or in other educational settings, ...

PALO ALTO (Reuters) - Playing classic video games like Pac-Man with living single-celled microbes thinner than a human hair is now possible thanks to an interactive microscope developed by ...

Urinary tract infections are both very common and potentially very dangerous. More than half of all Australian women will suffer from a UTI in their lifetime, and nearly one in three women will have ...

Staphylococcus aureus bacteria are pathogens to both man and other mammals. They are gram positive bacteria that are small round in shape (cocci) and occur as clusters appearing like a bunch of grapes ...

Thought Leaders Rhea Stringer Electron Microscopist John Innes Centre In this interview, News Medical speaks with Rhea Stringer, Electron Microscopist at the John Innes Centre, about the role of ...