The scanning electron microscope (SEM) is a valuable tool for understanding what is happening to a material or biological ...

In this article, Thermo Scientific Visualization Data Solutions discusses how a study using Amira software can help explain why we lose muscle mass as we age.

"We disrupt the membrane, so mitochondria cannot work functionally to produce energy or work as a signaling hub. This causes programmed cell death followed by DNA damage—our investigations ...

A few years later, the engineers Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll built the first electron microscope, which was more powerful than any light microscope. Given that electron waves are diffracted by much ...

The symbiont's role is thus strongly reminiscent of mitochondria, with the key difference that the endosymbiont derives energy from the respiration of nitrate, not oxygen. Now the researchers from ...