Each of us has enough DNA to reach from here to the sun and back, more than 300 times. How is all of that DNA packaged so tightly into chromosomes and squeezed into a tiny nucleus? Long, slender DNA ...

Optical Micrograph of Graphene Domains Formed across Grain Boundaries (IMAGE) University of Oxford Caption A new technique developed by an Oxford University-led team enables graphene to be grown ...

THE increasing use of the microscope for routine tests, and as an instrument of control in the factory, has resulted in directing the attention of makers and users to the production of microscopes of ...

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of cells heavily infected with COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) virus particles (orange). The inset is an artist’s rendition of a single virus with its spike proteins — the ...

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