A new kind of microscope is giving scientists a way to watch life inside cells with a clarity that feels almost unfair.

A large genetic screen has revealed how stem cells transform into brain cells, exposing hundreds of genes that make this ...

For the first time, researchers at the University of British Columbia have demonstrated how to reliably produce an important ...

Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye-called the ...

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 ...