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 ...

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A low-resolution microscopic image posted on social media does not prove that cells glow after a person is inoculated with a COVID-19 vaccine. A screenshot of a text message with an image of what ...

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A new microscope invented by scientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus will let researchers use an exquisitely thin sheet of light -- similar to that used in ...

Merging lattice light sheet microscopy with adaptive optics reveals the most detailed picture yet of subcellular dynamics in multicellular organisms. Our window into the cellular world just got a ...

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Medically reviewed by Anita C. Chandrasekaran, MD Key Takeaways An ANA blood test is used to find antinuclear antibodies that can be linked to autoimmune diseases.The test shows a positive result if ...

For more than 25 years, Arthur Earland and Edward Heron-Allen partnered in studying fossils of Foraminifera, a phylum of marine single-celled organisms often protected by shells of calcium carbonate.

Single-cell-type proteomics provides the capability to revealing the genomic and proteomics information at cell-level resolution. However, the methodology for this type of research has not been ...

Once attached, the virus slides along the surface until the cell reshapes itself and swallows the virus inside. This process is called endocytosis. But watching how the flu virus sneaks into cells has ...