It’s the most famous corkscrew in history. Now an electron microscope has captured the famous Watson-Crick double helix in all its glory, by imaging threads of DNA resting on a silicon bed of nails.

Rather than relying on optics, the microscopy system offers a chemically encoded way to map biomolecules' relative positions. Microscopy just got reinvented -- again. Traditionally, scientists have ...

Originally, explanatory conflicts hampered the use of freeze-fracture, but once these were remedied, the method prospered during the 1970s and 1980s, offering breakthroughs in the interpretation of ...

FFT-EM is an innovative method that represents a combination of FFT and EM techniques such as scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The technique is often used to determine the interior and surface ...

A new imaging tool works more like Google Maps than a traditional microscope. By Knvul Sheikh Peering inside cells has been an integral part of biology ever since the 17th century, when cells were ...