Using a homemade, high-tech microscope, scientists at the School of Medicine have revealed how a cancer-causing virus anchors itself to our DNA. That discovery could pave the way for doctors to cure ...

He tried to make a microscope from raw materials, but the glass kept failing. After a second round of refining ash, sand, and ...

After building a microscope from scratch, he tested pond water, his own blood, eggshells, sand, glass, wool, and more. Some samples were hard to read, but others exposed hidden details like blood ...

A team of researchers at the University of Iowa has created a new infrared cryo microscope. The homemade microscope was created to enable the recent study aimed at deepening the understanding of ...

M. Mitchell Smith (from left), Margaret J. Grant and Dean H. Kedes have discovered how a cancer-causing virus clings to our DNA. Targeting that tether could let doctors cure diseases by flushing ...

Some burning questions have just got to be answered, no matter the substantial costs involved. One such question demanding attention is: can a laser pointer be used to examine the microscopic contents ...

Michael Peres is obsessed with photographing snowflakes with a microscope. He catches the snowflakes on a piece of black velvet, runs into his garage and places the delicate flakes on a microscope ...

Using a homemade, high-tech microscope, scientists have revealed how a cancer-causing virus anchors itself to our DNA. That discovery could pave the way for doctors to cure incurable diseases by ...

M. Mitchell Smith, PhD, (left) built the laser microscope even though his background is in molecular genetics, not microscope building. He is pictured with collaborators Margaret J. Grant and Dean H.