The Rosalind Franklin Institute, a new national centre for interdisciplinary science, announces its first capital investment today. The namesake of the institute, the pioneering X-ray crystallographer ...

Pictures of DNA often look very tidy—the strands of the double helix neatly wind around each other, making it seem like ...

It’s not every day that something from the 17 th century gets radically reinvented. But this month, a team from the Broad Institute at MIT and Harvard took aim at one of the most iconic pieces of lab ...

A completely new category of microscopy has been invented by researchers in the US. Dubbed DNA microscopy, the technique tags RNA molecules with a range of DNA "barcodes" which in turn flag the ...

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Protein structures found naturally in bacteria can be used as electron-microscope-compatible gene reporters in animal cells. Researchers in Germany have shown that enzymes carried within cage-like ...

Behold, the world’s fastest microscope: it works at such an astounding speed that it’s the first-ever device capable of capturing a clear image of moving electrons. This is a potentially ...

The microscopic world of cells and bacteria is incredibly important to understand, but tricky to study in detail, especially without harming the subjects. Researchers at EPFL have now developed a new ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Electron microscopy has existed for nearly a century, but a record ...

THE structure of DNA is now known and the external form of mitotic chromosomes of higher organisms is fairly well characterized in the light microscope. However, the way in which chromosomes are ...