[Maurice] is a photographer specializing in micrographs. These very large images of very small things are beautiful, but late last year he’s been limited by his equipment. He needed a new microscope, ...

A complete portrait of a cell requires a detailed description of its molecular topography: proteins must be linked to particular organelles. Immunocytochemical electron microscopy can reveal locations ...

Omnipose, a deep learning software, is helping to solve the challenge of identifying varied miniscule bacteria in microscopy images. It can also identify several other types of tiny objects in ...

High school biology didn’t do much to make cells seem like fascinating, psychedelic visual art. The plant and animal cell diagrams splashed across textbook pages are a world away from what the ...

Jack Challoner, Gills of a fish-like invertebrate (all images courtesy Jack Challoner, from ‘The Cell: A Visual Tour of the Building Block of Life‘) In 1665, when British polymathic scientist Robert ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Colorized scanning electron micrographs of a B and T lymphocyte shown with a fluorescent microscopy image of the previously unseen "X lymphocyte," which is a hybrid of the other two immune cells.

Bacteriophage (colored transmission electron micrograph). Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria; this one, a T4 bacteriophage (orange), has just injected its viral DNA into an E. coli ...

SECRETORY STRUCTURES OF AROMATIC AND MEDICINAL PLANTS : A REVIEW AND ATLAS OF MICROGRAPHS AUTHORS: KATERINA P SVOBODA AND TOMAS G SVOBODA MICROGRAPHS ANDREW D SYRED DESIGNED AND EDITED BY POLLY M ...