Weighing a single living cell sounds like a party trick, yet the numbers involved are so small that they push the limits of ...

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How much does life weigh? It sounds like a strange question, but to biologists it makes all the sense in the world. Yeast ...

A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

A microscope’s job is to magnify the minuscule world around us. We can observe the tiniest objects, organisms and materials, and investigate their form, texture and composition, to witness what would ...