Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

Researchers from the University of Technology Delft, the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and Caltech have developed a ...

A breakthrough in imaging technology promises to transform our understanding of the inner workings of living cells, and provide insights into a wide range of diseases.

Nucleus Control centre of the cell. It contains the cell’s genetic information arranged in chromosomes. Chromosomes Threadlike structure found in the nucleus. Made of DNA which contains the ...

The discovery of the resistosome was a milestone in plant immunity. Here, Zhong et al. identify a kinase that phosphorylates the NLR, and reveal how this kinase regulates resistosome assembly to ...

The Plant Biology Department has a dedicated spinning disk confocal microscope to enable high resolution imaging of plant tissues and cells. Graduate and undergraduate research in Plant Biology ...

Nevertheless, such observations are complex─they require delicate samples kept in the liquid phase, low electron dose, and proper cell viability verification methods. Despite being highly demanding, ...

Morphological observation assesses cell damage by directly examining changes in cell morphology under a microscope. If there are evident changes in the morphology of the cells following stimulation, ...

Dr. James Lim, associate professor of pediatrics at UBC’s faculty of medicine, observes pediatric cancer cells grown in a chicken egg under a microscope.