Scientists have found plastic fragments can shed off cutting boards, takeout containers and even laminated paper cups with ...

Microplastics are in our water, air and seafood. It's been recently discovered to be in chewing gum, too. Here's what to know ...

A paper, published today ... in which a sample of tissue is sliced into thin layers and placed on a slide to be examined under a microscope. High frequency, or high-resolution ultrasound, is ...

This important study shows that the Nora virus, a natural Drosophila pathogen that also persistently infects many laboratory fly stocks, infects intestinal stem cells (ISCs), leading to a shorter life ...

They described the fish—which belong to a newly identified species called Ferruaspis brocksi—in a paper published ... they put them under a scanning electron microscope. The technology ...

Microplastics have been under the microscope lately ... a plastic spoon's worth of tiny plastic shards in human brain tissue. That sounds bad, but exactly how bad is it? To dig deeper, we spoke ...

A tiny robot that can take 3D scans from deep within the body has been developed by University of Leeds engineers, ...

And the authors of a 2022 study paper published in the International Journal of ... he would remove the adhesive-coated slide from the trap, analyze the findings under a microscope, and post a report.

This may be obtained with a simple punch biopsy (using a paper punch-like device). For esophageal LP, a sample of tissue can be obtained while viewing the esophagus with a lighted scope, known as ...