Differential interference contrast microscopy images show protein-RNA vesicles created in the lab. The vesicles -- hollow, spherical sacks -- were made without traditional lipid building blocks. The ...

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 ...

Biologists are very interested in how proteins, lipids and other compounds are organized and interact in systems. Very few organizational details can be gained by using standard transmission-based ...