microscope

A microscope (Greek: micron = small and scopos = aim) is an instrument for viewing objects that are too small to be seen by the naked or unaided eye.

Optical Microscopes
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Optical microscopes, through their use of visible wavelengths of light, are the simplest and hence most widely used type of microscope. They serve uses in many fields of science, particularly biology and geology.

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A New Generation Of Super Microscopes Is Poised For Scientific Use.Super-high resolution optical microscopes, with powers that seemed physically impossible a decade ago, are poised to open a new era in imaging in molecular biology, according to a report scheduled for the Sept. issue of Chemical & Engineering News, the ACS' weekly news magazine.

The new optical microscopes produce images that can identify the precise cellular locations of thousands of individual protein molecules with unprecedented clarity, C&EN Senior Editor Ivan Amato writes in the article. "Once such super-resolution tools get into the hands of the many, instead of just the few who have built them, [scientists say], the effect on biology could be transformative," the article states.