Plant and animal cells are both extremely important to the survival of millions of species and without them, life couldn’t ...

But when scientists from Nagoya, Japan used powerful microscopes to study the fertilisation process, they were surprised to ...

Students can examine a variety of different plant cells and animal cells from different tissue or blood samples under the ...

Researchers have developed a new smartphone-based digital holographic microscope that enables precision 3D measurements. The highly portable and inexpensive microscope could help bring 3D measurement ...

Students can be challenged to describe the differences between plant and animal cells. Using microscopes, a variety of different animal cells from different tissue or blood samples could be examined.

According to a study published in Applied Optics, researchers from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have created a new smartphone-based digital holographic microscope that allows for ...

You might think flowers don't have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can't ...

Josie Kishi, 31, co-developed Light-Seq, a technology that lets researchers look at cells under a microscope before ...

Gazing out on a freshwater pond, you may see tiny green plants with oval-shaped leaves floating in clusters. In overgrown ...

Flowers use an invisible blueprint established early in petal formation that dictates the size of their "bullseyes", which ...

Scientists have long been interested in metformin, a widely prescribed drug used to treat Type 2 diabetes, for its potential ...