With serpentine necks, flippers and a mouth full of needle-sharp teeth, plesiosaurs have captured imaginations since ...

However, when Erbacher looked at skin tissue under the microscope, he noticed that nerve fibers did not just grow around skin cells but, to the whole team’s surprise, tunneled straight through them.

The cells staring back at Plikus through the microscope were distinctly fattier ... make up dozens of different types of tissue, from skin to salivary glands. Skeletal tissues, like cartilage ...

A unique microscope called stage-scanning oblique ... new technique to identify two genes that control how melanoma skin ...

To diagnose melanoma your doctor removes the abnormal area and a small area of surrounding skin. This is called an excision biopsy. A specialist doctor (pathologist) looks at the biopsy under a ...

Currently, the 270,000 new skin cancer cases diagnosed each year in the UK are identified using a microscope-type device ... use can also damage healthy cells in the body. They are also time ...