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Researchers have used a special type of microscope to discover how “check valves” in wood cells control sap flow and protect trees when they are injured. Researchers from Virginia Tech, the ...

They then froze these samples using a nitrogen bath and looked at them under a low-temperature scanning electron microscope. When they got to the tulip tree sample and examined its secondary cell wall ...

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Researchers have combined two microscopic imaging techniques in one microscope, providing scientists with a high-resolution method of tracking single molecules in a cellular context. The development ...

A team of researchers in Germany and Australia recently used a new microscopy technique to image nano-scale biological structures at a previously unmanageable resolution, without destroying the living ...