"Our biosensor offers a fast, affordable and sensitive way to detect microplastics in environmental samples within hours," ...

A groundbreaking human trial has begun that could transform life for people with spinal cord injuries. The project, developed ...

We're all taught to wash our hands regularly in order to kill bacteria and germs, but there's one bacterium that isn't afraid ...

Sixty percent of miscarriages are caused by the failure of an embryo—the developmental stage before a fetus—to implant in the woman’s uterus. Part of the problem is that researchers have no idea how ...

A research team at UCLA, led by Professor Aydogan Ozcan, has introduced BlurryScope, a compact, cost-effective scanning ...

To observe living cells through a microscope, a sample is usually squeezed onto a glass slide. It then lies there calmly and the cells are observable. The disadvantage is that this limits how the ...

Despite how they look under the microscope, human follicular mites, a.k.a. Demodex, are fairly ubiquitous and mostly harmless if not beneficial. In fact, they are present on nearly every human ...

Human cancer under a microscope. The black dots on the right of the image are lymphocytes which are trying to get at the tumor, but are being stopped by cancer-associated fibroblasts.

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Here's a feast for your eyes: mesmerizing footage of circuit boards being soldered, massively magnified under an ultra- powerful microscope. It's a fun watch, even if you've never picked up a ...

A team of chemists created strands of spaghetti that are 200 times thinner than human hair and are even narrower than some wavelengths of light.