Microscopes have long served as windows into the hidden world of cells, revealing their shape, activity, and chemistry. Yet watching life at this scale has always involved trade-offs. To capture the ...
A full blue supermoon rises next to the Prospect Park water tower, also known as the "Witch's Hat," in Minneapolis on Monday. CATHY WURZER: Here's a story for you. It begins with a small ocean fish ...
The miracle of childbirth hasn't happened in space quite yet, but mice babies have proven that it may not be as risky as previously thought. Aiming to test how space conditions would impact offspring, ...
Scientists have successfully used frozen human cells taken from nerve tissue to restore nerve conduction in an animal model of multiple sclerosis. “Such cells could potentially be used in humans for a ...
This article is based on a poster originally authored by Blaise Louis, Serena Belluschi, Daniel Weekes, Tom Mitchell, Holly Herbert, Tarun Vemulkar and Jeroen Verheyen, which was presented at ELRIG ...
Hemifusomes are fused vesicles, or sacs of fluid, that were previously unknown to exist inside cells. They were discovered using cryo-electron tomography, which literally freezes them in time, and ...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say they have used a "zap-and-freeze" technology to watch hard-to-see brain cell communications in living brain tissue from mice and humans.
You know the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park, but what about the Frozen Zoo? A decades-long conservation effort that could help thousands of wildlife species is happening in our backyard.