Engineers at the California Institute of Technology have designed a dime-sized lensless microscope able to capture high-resolution images of cells and pathogens. The low-cost, portable technology ...

A vapor diffusion process, such as the hanging or sitting drop method, is used to grow most protein crystals. However, salt crystals are also found frequently alongside these crystals. Normal imaging ...

The high sensitivity of the reflection electron microscopy (REM) technique to small changes in the crystal structure and composition of the top surface layers of various crystalline materials makes it ...

AR Micro-Blocks have been created to provide users with a new augmented reality microscope that uses the power of your tablet or iPhone to help you explore a microscopic world normally unseen to the ...

Beam-sensitive zeolites are difficult to study at high resolution because traditional electron microscopy often damages or destroys their delicate crystal structures before meaningful data can be ...

For pharmaceuticals, knowing the chemical composition is not enough—molecular geometry and crystal structure also play an important role in a drug’s activity. By using a method based on electron ...

The latest short science news items from C&EN. Crystallization starts with tiny clusters of protein molecules that act as seeds, says Mike Sleutel of Vrije Universiteit Brussels, who led the work. The ...

Dr. C. H. DESCH delivered a Research and Development Lecture under the auspices of the Royal Institution and the British Science Guild on February 6, taking as his subject “The Microscope and the ...