The modern microscope is an incredibly powerful tool when it comes to detecting disease, but typically the biological material being studied needs to be stained or dyed to reveal its secrets. This can ...

The first line of treatment for cancer is, whenever possible, to remove the cancerous tissue from the body. Though often ...

These arrays consist of up to 200 tissue cores arrayed on standard microscope slides. Applied in duplicate in a paraffin matrix, the current sets of 600-µm diameter by 4-mm thick cores are derived ...

Elizabeth Armstrong Moore is based in Portland, Oregon, and has written for Wired, The Christian Science Monitor, and public radio. Her semi-obscure hobbies include climbing, billiards, board games ...

MediSCAPE, a high-speed 3D microscope designed by Columbia Engineers, can see real-time cellular detail in living tissues to guide surgery, speed up tissue analyses, and improve treatments. A Columbia ...

Hidden inside every organ, microscopic fibers form a scaffolding that quietly shapes how we move, think, and heal. For the ...

Microscopy continues to transform the life sciences. Here are five recent breakthroughs made possible by the technique.

A simple light-based method is uncovering hidden fiber networks inside the brain and body, even in tissue slides over 100 years old.

For centuries, the field of pathology has been defined by a single instrument: the microscope. But according to William ...