New microscope allows scientists to track a functioning protein 

A Stanford University research team has designed the first microscope sensitive enough to track the real-time motion of a single protein down to the level of its individual atoms. 

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3D EM for Examing Nanostructure 

The world’s first electron microscope for simultaneously and automatically investigating in three-dimensions the phase content, crystallographic texture, and crystal interfaces of materials developed at the Department of Microstructure Physics, Max Planck Institute. 

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New Type Of Optical Microscopy Attains Near-Molecular Resolution 

A new type of microscopy invented by Xiaowei Zhuang delivers spatial resolution more than 10 times better than that of conventional optical microscopes, putting scientists tantalizingly close to the first crisp, ultra-resolution, real-time imaging of living biomolecules and cells. 

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New Microscope Sharpens Scientists' Focus 

A new light microscope so powerful that it allows scientists peering inside cells to discern the precise location of nearly each individual protein they are studying has been developed and successfully demonstrated by scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm research campus. 

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New technique breaks nanometer barrier in X-ray microscopy 

A new X-ray microscopy technique that observes molecular-scale features less than a nanometer in height has been developed by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in collaboration with Xradia, Inc. 

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Nanoscale Microscope Sheds First Light on Gene Repair 

For the first time high resolution 4Pi microscope images of endogenous nuclear proteins in human cells have been realized. 

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