Fifteen years ago, physicists worked out a method to increase image contrast by hitting the electron imaging beam with an ...

Nearly 100 years ago, a seemingly simple discovery revolutionized the microscope. The introduction of phase contrast, which ...

Installed in a custom Titan Krios, the laser phase plate enhances motion correction, early‑frame recovery, and 3D classification and alignment.

In a landmark achievement in biological imaging, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Biohub today ...

A new microscope method reveals details that were difficult to see before, helping researchers study proteins, cells, and ...

Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley physicists' new technique offers detailed images of the small molecules and cell structures that ...

The invention that first enabled researchers to see clear images of living cells was the phase-contrast microscope, which won its inventor, Frits Zernike, a Nobel Prize in 1932. Prior to Zernike's ...