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 ...

Cell freezing (cryopreservation) - which is essential in cell transfusions as well as basic biomedical research - can be dramatically improved using a new polymeric cryoprotectant, discovered at the ...

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. Findings from the new ...