An electron scanning micrograph of the molecule-weighing device. When a molecule lands on the bridge-like portion at the center, it vibrates at a frequency that indicates its mass. Image via ...

Building on their creation of the first-ever mechanical device that can measure the mass of individual molecules, one at a time, a team of Caltech scientists and their colleagues have created ...

(Nanowerk News) Two scientists from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have been recognized by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for their innovative and high-impact biomedical ...

Like a miniscule bathroom scale, a tiny vibrating gizmo can weigh individual molecules, a team of physicists reports. The new device could open up new realms of mass spectroscopy, the science of ...

A new state-of-the-art brain imaging technique could, someday, make fMRI neuroimaging technology and current optogenetic methods seem antiquated. This week, a team of Caltech researchers from the ...

Scientists have developed a revolutionary new technology that can image and weigh single molecules and instantly identify a single virus or bacteria particle. A microscopic tool, more than 1000 times ...

Although many technologies used in biological research are now being applied to make observations at the single-cell level, mass spectrometry is not one of them. Typically, millions of cells growing ...