What does the inside of a cell really look like? In the past, standard microscopes were limited in how well they could answer this question. Now, researchers from the Universities of Göttingen and ...

A tickly itch, a painful scratch, or the feeling of a refreshing breeze—the skin is teaming with nerve endings that drive these sensations. Scientists are getting into the epidermis to explore how ...

All cells, whether big or small, short or long, rely on proteins to function properly. In most cells, transporting these ...

Millions of neurons branch throughout our bodies, keeping them in close communication with our brains. This peripheral network begins to take shape long before birth, as the cells of a growing embryo ...

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 ...

UTA will soon add a new piece of cutting-edge equipment to its already impressive and growing research armamentarium - a type of super-resolution microscope (SRM) that allows biologists to see ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women with epilepsy and hormonal irregularities had reduced nerve fiber length, reduced fractal dimension and ...

Central epithelial nerve fiber density and related architectural metrics remain profoundly reduced up to two years post-LASIK, with parallel increases in mechanical (but not osmotic) sensory ...