Researchers use laboratory tools every day to help them make groundbreaking discoveries. Read on to find out which ...

The key to understanding the drivers of physical and neurological disease lies in part with understanding the microscopic ...

A new leaf imaging system lets scientists watch plant stomata control water loss and carbon uptake in real time.

Health disruptors are introducing new ways to screen for cervical cancer that skip the speculum entirely. And Teal's the first to bring at-home screening to women in all 50 states.

Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on Earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

UIUC's platform, christened Stomata In-Sight, combines laser scanning confocal microscopy, gas exchange instruments and machine-learning image analysis, to simultaneously observe anatomical ...

You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

Spencer Axani, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the inventor of CosmicWatch, a portable, low-cost particle detector that tracks muons, invisible particles that ...

Maintaining a consistent, high-density E. coli culture under consistent growth conditions allows the system to perform ...