Nanoscientists have transformed a molecule of chlorophyll-a from spinach into a complex biological switch that has possible future applications for green energy, technology and medicine.

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The ability to generate functional nanoswitches might ultimately allow the integration of nanocomponents into electronic components. Single molecule switches using scanning ...

The winning photos from the annual Olympus BioScapes contest offer a window on the unseen world -- an astonishing view of life at the microscopic level. What’s cooler than the intersection of awesome ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 34, No. 10 (Dec., 1947), pp. 545-550 (6 pages) The isolated spinach chloroplast, as studied with the electron microscope, contains some forty to sixty bodies, the ...

An imaging platform developed at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) could help reveal new details of coral microstructure and health. Described in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, the ...