How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast ...

What does the inside of a cell really look like? In the past, standard microscopes were limited in how well they could answer this question. Now, researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and ...

Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells ...

Weighing a single living cell sounds like a party trick, yet the numbers involved are so small that they push the limits of ...

New device could be used to observe structures as small as individual proteins, as well as the environment in which they move ...