Always improving Since 2015, Boyden's interdisciplinary lab group has found a variety of creative ways to improve expansion microscopy and use it in new ways. Their standard technique today ...

Origins of ExM To develop expansion microscopy, Boyden and his team turned to hydrogel, a material with remarkable water-absorbing properties that had already been put to practical use; it's ...

The efforts of microscopists have given aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy the power to reveal atomic structures with unprecedented precision. It is now up to materials ...

For the past 400 years, new technological breakthroughs in optical microscopy have been paving the way to new scientific discoveries in biology and biomedical research. The following links summarize ...

The electron microscope is a type of microscope that uses a beam of electrons to create an image of the specimen. It is capable of much higher magnifications and has a greater resolving power than a ...

The development of microscopy and photonic techniques has enabled progress across a wide variety of research fields, mainly in the life sciences, where advanced microscopy has increased the ...

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) has revolutionized the realm of microscopic analysis. By delivering astonishingly detailed images of minuscule entities such as insects, bacteria, or even the ...

The Light Microscopy Facility houses state-of-the-art microscopy systems that allow scientists from all over the world to see beyond the limits of the naked eye. Traditional manual microscopes ...