A hybrid microscope, born at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), for the first time allows scientists to simultaneously ...

University of Queensland researchers have for the first time introduced genetic material into plants via their roots, opening a potential pathway for rapid crop improvement.

Advancing Knowledge Non-Profit Company (AK NPC) expanded its training of natural sciences teachers to the Overberg Education ...

A research team led by Professor Kevin Tsia, programme director of the Biomedical Engineering Programme under the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has developed an ...

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells ...

Scientists created a tool to study individual phytoplankton, helping predict climate effects and ocean health changes.

In the days leading up to the seizure of Goma by the M23 rebels last month, the FDLR militia – the UN and US-sanctioned terror group founded by extremists linked to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi ...

There are as many as 86 billion neurons in the human brain. They make trillions of synaptic connections, with each neuron connecting with other neurons to create a complex network.  It is through ...

Two heads are better than one, as the saying goes, and sometimes two instruments, ingeniously recombined, can accomplish feats that neither could have done on its own.

A hybrid microscope allows scientists to simultaneously image the full 3D orientation and position of an ensemble of molecules, such as labeled proteins inside cells. The microscope combines polarized ...

Multi-laser picodroplets can be used in single cell analysis, sorting and dispensing - discover how in this article.

This new system uses a special microscope to get a close look at individual phytoplankton cells which are sent down tiny channels. It measures the different colors of light the cells give off ...