Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) was the first person to make and use a real microscope. He was able to utilize 550 different lenses in order to produce a lens tube that could view objects that were ...

With the new 3-D printed, easily assembled smartphone microscope developed at Stanford University, microbiology can now be turned into game time. The device allows kids to play games or make more ...

A team of Australian scientists has developed a powerful microscope using the laws of quantum mechanics to probe the inner workings of living cells. The researchers believe their microscope could lead ...

Estimated Number of Under-Graduate students affected per year (should be number who will actually use solution, not just who is it available to): 200 Estimated Number of Graduate students affected per ...

With nothing more than a smartphone and less than $10 of trinkets and hardware supplies, students can build their own microscopes. The DIY microscopes can magnify samples up to 175 times with a single ...

In order to map one of the world’s largest viruses, scientists took a DIY approach to build a retrofitted cryo-electron microscope. “If the common cold virus is scaled to the size of a ladder, then ...

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 ...

Take a smartphone, add $10 worth of plywood and Plexiglas, a bit of hardware, laser pointer lenses and LED click lights from a keychain flashlight and you have a DIY microscope worthy of use in ...

One look through something called a confocal microscope was all it took for William Sunderland to make a drastic change in his career plans. A math student with what appeared to be a bright future in ...

Microbiologists don't use microscopes very often. The reason is because a substantial proportion of modern microbiology research uses the tools of molecular biology, for which microscopes are not ...