The accumulation of misfolded proteins in the brain is central to the progression of neurodegenerative diseases like ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques have come into their own — and are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in disease ...

Simply put, the new microscope can capture even the tiniest cell structures as it has a resolution better than five nanometers. The newly-developed instrument is called a fluorescence microscope ...

Until today, skin, brain, and all tissues of the human body were difficult to observe in detail with an optical microscope, since the contrast in the image was hindered by the high density of their ...

In human beings, egg cells need to survive for about five decades, much longer than most other cell types – and they may achieve this unusually long lifespan by slowing down their natural cell process ...

Back then, people believed that it killed cells by injecting them with a poison. But as she watched it through a microscope, she saw something very different. E. histolytica was actually taking bites ...