News Published: October 2007 Microscopes made from bamboo bring biology into focus Paroma Basu Nature Medicine 13, 1128 (2007) Cite this article ...

The microscopes of Van Leeuwenhoek's contemporaries magnified objects approximately 30 times, but his microscopes were up to 10 times more powerful. How he managed this feat remained a mystery up ...

Microscopes are of three basic types: optical, electron (or ion), and scanning probe. The modern optical or light microscope was developed in the mid-19th century. Optical microscopes use ...