The human microbiome is essential to our health, but scientists have only begun to understand why. Two researchers set out to ...

From overcoming classical optical limits to tracking single proteins in real time, super-resolution imaging continues to ...

Biologists have long puzzled over how organs develop into their final shapes, and the nearly transparent bodies of young sea ...

Using a portable sensor, the technology analyzes exhaled biomarkers to detect lung conditions without a lab test or chest x-ray.

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For centuries, biological imaging was myopic; visualization stopped at about 10 μm of tissue depth. Detailed observation of tissue came with a death sentence for the tissue (fixation) so that it could ...

Macrophages are one of the principal immune effector cells that play essential roles as secretory, phagocytic, and antigen-presenting cells in the immune system. In this study, we address the issue of ...