Archive: October 16, 2026

Imaging the Heart’s Electricity Without Stopping the Motion

Imagine trying to read the small print on a sign while someone shakes it in front of your face. That, in a nutshell, is the challenge of measuring the electrical activity of living heart cells. Every heartbeat begins with an electrical spike, the action potential, which triggers a rush of calcium inside the cell, which in ...

Making Quantum Biology More Accessible: A Simpler Way to Measure Ultrafast Fluorescence

Imagine you could watch a single molecule inside a living cell respond to its environment in real time – measuring how viscous the fluid around it is, or detecting a fleeting interaction with a neighbouring protein. Techniques like fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) can do exactly that. By measuring how long a fluorescent molecule stays “lit up” after being ...