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 ...

Please can you give an introduction to whole-mount scanning of breast tissue? How does this differ from conventional methods? We actually normally refer to this as whole-specimen imaging of breast ...

A deep-learning computer network was 100 percent accurate in determining whether invasive forms of breast cancer were present in whole biopsy slides. The network correctly made the same determination ...

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

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 ...

For centuries, the field of pathology has been defined by a single instrument: the microscope. But according to William Westra, MD, vice chair of Anatomic Pathology at Moffitt Cancer Center, the field ...

Mid‐infrared chemical imaging is a quantitative, non‐destructive microscopy method that can be used to visualize a variety of intrinsic biochemical markers in cells, tissues and biofluids, without any ...

Spatial transcriptomics may have just achieved single-cell resolution. Researchers led by Evan Macosko, Fei Chen, and colleagues at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, bound together ...

Wesley R. Coe, professor of zoology at Yale during the early 20th century, devoted his career to studying ribbon worms — a group of mostly marine-dwelling creatures that includes more than 1,000 known ...