While it detects for possible cervical cancer like a Pap smear, it does so differently, she tells Parade. A Pap smear takes a ...

John Allman (with colleague Atiya Hakeem at Caltech examining elephant brain specimens) is searching for one of the biological keys to human behavior ... von Economo cells in 16 slides—an ...

Kiora Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: KPRX), ("Kiora" or the "Company") today announced the results from a preclinical study ...

This valuable study provides insights into a key question in comparative neuroanatomy and development. The authors provide evidence of the role for a particular micro-RNA in regulating the development ...

Robotic microscopes revolutionize biological research by automating cell tracking, enhancing data quality, and enabling ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this ...

Scientists have revealed how a parasite that affects millions of people every year evades our immune defenses.

Back in 2011, during her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia, Ralston observed the parasite under a microscope and found that it was actually taking bites out of human cells.

But as she watched it through a microscope, she saw something very different. E. histolytica was actually taking bites out of human cells. Peering through the microscope, "You could see little ...

Influenza viruses are among the most likely triggers of future pandemics. A research team has developed a method that can be used to study the interaction of viruses with host cells in unprecedented ...