Basic techniques for observing the microscopic structure of the human body —Histology is the study of understanding the human ...

Deciphering the Fluid Connective Tissue Under the MicroscopeBlood flows through blood vessels throughout the body, transporting oxygen, nutrients, hormones, waste products, and more.At first glance, ...

For biologists, seeing is believing. But sometimes biologists have a hard time seeing. One particularly vexing challenge is seeing all the molecules in an intact tissue sample, down to the level of ...

Trinity College Dublin now has Ireland's first and only BioBrillouin microscope, which will enable researchers to make giant strides in the fields of inflammation, cancer, developmental biology and ...

As a high school student interested in both art and science, Leonie Schön found her muse in an unlikely place. While doing an internship in a medical laboratory, Schön, now a pathologist at ...

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) shows which genes are being expressed and where within a tissue. Spatial metabolomics (SM), on ...

Researchers developed fluorescent dyes that reveal DNA packing in living cells and could help scientists study changes linked to cancer.

One of the main reasons ovarian cancer is among the deadliest forms of cancer is timing: When doctors catch it early, the ...

One example is single-cell RNA sequencing. Known as scRNA-seq, the technology has changed how researchers understand the diversity of cells within tissues by showing that individual cells can produce ...