Most advanced microscopes are specialists. One is tuned for tiny structures inside a single cell, another for large tissues, another for scanning hundreds of sample dishes. A lab that wants to do all three often needs three machines. On November 5, 2026, UT Southwestern Medical Center announced a light-sheet microscope designed to change that.
The instrument, called the multi-immersion oblique plane microscope (miOPM), was developed in the lab of Reto Fiolka, Ph.D., and described in Nature Meth...
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New moulds can sculpt vegetables and fruits in different shapes
Tony Dighera in California has come up with a technology to develop molds that can sculpts edible fruits and vegetables to look like just about anything you want.
Fruits can be grown to form various shapes like Frankstein's Face or Buddha or into any other idea that appeals to the customers. Plastic molds with the required shapes are placed over immature fruits till they ripen.
The art of modifying, arranging, or decorating food to enhance its aesthetic appeal is known as "plating." This u...
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