A cancer cell begins to die, and for the first time, a researcher can watch the exact moment it happens. New fluorescent dyes ...

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have found that the motion of unlabeled cells can be used to tell whether they are cancerous or healthy. They observed malignant fibrosarcoma cells and ...

A new study co-led by an Oregon Health & Science University researcher describes a breakthrough in microscopy tools that ...

A new analytical method could improve how cancer treatments are designed—by allowing scientists to track, for the first time, ...

A new technique combining capillary sampling and LA-ICP-MS reveals where cancer drugs accumulate within living cells. The ...

New NE-AFM method measures nuclear stiffness in living cells. It shows cancer nuclei change softness with chromatin and environment, aiding diagnosis and treatment. By employing a technique called ...

Surgical removal of tumours is critical to cancer treatment, but missing small fragments of cancerous tissue, which can lead to recurrence of tumours — a problem known as ‘positive margins’ — is a ...

Using a tiny, spherical glass lens sandwiched between two brass plates, the 17th-century Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was the first to officially describe red blood cells and sperm cells ...

A video from Cambridge University's Under the Microscope series reveals a battle to the death between a white blood cell and a cancer cell. The T cell (green), which is only 10 microns long, ...