A new microscope just arrived at the International Space Station to help study life's adaptability under extreme conditions ...

Researchers at MIT have developed a noninvasive medical monitoring device powerful enough to detect single cells within blood ...

Nearly 150 years ago, scientists began to imagine how information might flow through the brain based on the shapes of neurons ...

In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their ...

Researchers say they have mapped more than 200,000 cells in a cubic millimeter of brain tissue and have traced how they're ...

Scientists have attempted to map the human cell since the first microscope was invented more than 400 years ago. But many components of the cell still remain uncharted. “ We know each of the proteins ...

A new tissue expansion method developed by researchers at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus and the University of ...

In the final ELVIS platform delivered to orbit, the DHM module "provides better than 0.8-micron spatial resolution across a 0.25 mm 3 flow-through cell, and has the ability to detect fewer than 100 ...

Imaging wall-less plant cells every six minutes for 24 hours revealed how the cells build their protective barriers.

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together. By Jack Tamisiea For a creature made up of only a single cell ...