Giant Rats Can Detect Tuberculosis With Greater Accuracy than a Microscope Test
A 10-pound rat wouldn’t normally evoke feelings of appreciation, but perhaps it should — apparently it can save lives by sniffing out tuberculosis. Rat disease recognition is much more accurate than...
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A microscopic, see-through water flea is the most complex creature ever studied, genomically speaking. Daphnia pulex is the first crustacean to ever have its genome…
View ArticleWorld's Most Powerful Optical Microscope Lets Researchers See Inside Viruses
A new microscope combines a normal optical scope with a see-through microsphere superlens, beating the diffraction limit of light and shattering the limits of optical…
View ArticleVideo: International Cell Race Clocks Cells Speeding Along Microscopic Race...
A clump of bone marrow cells are the fastest cells in the world, moving at a glacial pace of 5.2 microns per minute across a petri dish. They beat a line of breast cells by a hair’s breadth — OK, well...
View ArticleElectron Ptychography Could Create Tiniest, Sharpest Images Ever
A new microscopy method that ditches lenses altogether could create the highest-resolution images ever seen. The system reconstructs an image from the electron waves…
View Article"Acoustic Tweezers" Can Manipulate Tiny Organisms Using Sound Waves
Tired of grabbing cells and roundworms with clumsy tools? This set of acoustic tweezers -- a device the size of a dime -- uses ultrasound to move objects and living material…
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