In collaboration with the University of Minnesota and Cornell University, Martin Obr and Florian Schur from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) provide new details into the ...

The laser you see in the photo above may one day enhance images taken by the most powerful microscopes in biology. This advancement, detailed in a paper published in eLife from scientists at ...

You know when you are at the eye doctor getting an updated prescription, and suddenly the world snaps into sharper focus? Physicists at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, have now done ...

Taking images of tiny structures within cells is tricky business. One technique, cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), shoots electrons through a frozen sample. The images formed by the electrons ...

In a study published in Science on October 17, a team led by Prof. BI Guoqiang from the University of Science and Technology of China/Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy ...

Cryo-electron tomography is a method used to produce 3D images of biological specimens at high resolution. Typically, the specimen is placed on a thin grid and then rapidly frozen to maintain its ...

Biochemist Wolfgang Baumeister, director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, has received the 2025 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine. The Shaw Prizes have been awarded annually ...

A millisecond-precision time-resolved cryo-ET system, combining plunge-freezing with optogenetic stimulation (top left), captured distinct intermediate states of SV exocytosis in intact hippocampal ...

Electron tomography is a powerful imaging technique that enables the three-dimensional (3D) visualization and analysis of nanostructures at the atomic scale. By combining advanced electron microscopy ...

Thermo Fisher Scientific TMO has unveiled its latest customer-centric innovation, the Thermo Scientific Krios 5 Cryo-Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM). The next-generation atomic-resolution ...