Cells are the smallest units of life. But even within the same tissue or organ, they are not all identical. New variations ...

Doctors use a combination of tests, including urinalysis, cystoscopy, urine culture, and bladder wall biopsy to diagnose interstitial ... tissue for analysis under a microscope.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Let's take a look at how to observe cells under a microscope. No prizes for guessing the first thing you'll need: a ...

A physicist in Toronto is testing if distinguishing the sounds of cancer cells from normal cells could help detect blood cancers earlier. The futuristic idea is one of 37 research projects that ...

A video from Cambridge University's Under the Microscope series reveals a battle to the death between a white blood cell and a cancer cell. The T cell (green), which is only 10 microns long ...

when cells were discovered under a microscope. But even with advances in light and electron microscopy, researchers who want to understand where various molecules are inside a cell — and thus ...

Until now, scientists have had to manually mark which cells look alive and which look dead under the microscope. Dead cells have a characteristic balled-up appearance that is relatively easy to ...