By combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the optical properties of a ...

Living organisms are made up of hundreds of thousands of cells that cooperate to create the organs and systems that breathe, eat, move, and think. Now, researchers from Japan have developed a new way ...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic disease that affects an increasing number of children and adults. The skin is dry and ...

UCSF scientists discover that the spindle, the structure that divides chromosomes equally during mitosis, actually gets stronger when it is stretched.

Every second, millions of cells in your body divide in two. In the space of an hour, they duplicate their DNA and grow a web ...