This autoimmune disease may impact your skin as well as your nails and hair. Learn what to look for to treat lupus more effectively.

How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world.

With a so-called cryo plasma-FIB (Plasma Focused Ion Beam) scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator, Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany) is expanding its research infrastructure with a ...

A new microscope lets scientists observe both large structures and tiny particles inside living cells at the same time, without labels, offering a powerful new way to study cell processes, drugs, and ...

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 ...

Extracellular vesicles and particles are central to how cells communicate, especially in cancer, where they help shape metastasis and treatment resistance. However, most existing methods analyze ...

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

Some people with obesity have a distinct oral microbiome signature – a discovery that could lead to a way to spot the condition early and potentially prevent it. “The oral microbiome is the second ...

Tumours might seem to be discrete entities, but each one is a roiling collection of cells. Instead of looking at the tumour as a whole, individual analysis of its many different cells is providing ...

Monoclonal B-cell lymphocytosis (MBL) is when you have a high number of identical B cells, under 5,000 per microliter, for at least 3 months. It usually causes no symptoms or need for active treatment ...

In just a few decades, mobile phones have gone from a luxury reserved for the elite to an essential tool for billions of users. From the first in-car phones of the 1940s to the best smartphones of ...