This week's image is of treated and stained HeLa cells, which I selected because I'm currently engrossed in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Like …
Category: Biomedical research
Disrupting moral thought with magnetic fields
According to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that has been getting quite a bit of coverage, researchers at …
International Cellular Medicine Society evaluates overseas stem cell clinics
A global association of stem cell clinicians has published a survey (.pdf) comparing clinics located outside of the United States that offer therapies for over …
Neurosurgical operation broadcasted live in high-definition 3D
Given all of the news coverage about the U.S. health-care reform bill dominating the media last week, it's probably no surprise that I, and perhaps …
How the Scope Image of the Week was made
This video shows how photographer James Duncan Davidson captured picture of eye tissue through a microscope using the camera on his iPhone. His picture was …
Image of the Week: Eye tissue via a microscope and an iPhone
You are looking at eye tissue as seen through a transmission electron microscope. This image was taken by James Duncan Davidson, who made it by …
Geneticists home in on what makes us unique
As a parent who has logged more than my share of frustrating hours with the 'I Spy' series of books my kids love, I've learned …
The bacterial trail you leave on keyboards may be uniquely yours
As has been written on Scope before, for every human cell in your body, there are ten bacterial cells living on or in it. Now …
Stem cells from ordinary skin may treat rare skin disease
A recent New York Times article highlighted advances in applying stem cell technology to treat skin diseases. These techniques may offer a more advanced method …
FDA helping drug companies develop treatments for orphan diseases
Orphan. It’s such a lonely word. And when coupled with the word “disease,” it’s downright scary. The truth is I had never heard of the …
CT images of crocodile mummies scanned at Stanford
Here by popular demand are two very preliminary renderings of one of the Greco-Roman crocodile mummies scanned last week at Stanford. These images were generated …
Study links bacteria in gut to size of a "gut"
Right now there's a sizable colony of microbes roaming around in your gut and it may surprise you to learn that many of those microbes …
Ancient crocodile mummies scanned at Stanford
Conservators at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum at UC Berkeley are in the midst of reviewing CT images of a pair of crocodile mummies, which …
Baby woolly mammoth scanned for Chicago museum
Apparently mummies aren't the only ancient creatures being scanned these days. Now GE Healthcare has donated time on its MR and CT scanners to The …
Do siestas make you smarter?
I don't know about you, but I've been mourning the loss of afternoon naptime ever since preschool graduation. That is why I was excited to …
Researchers reveal causes of King Tut's death
A combination of bone disease and malarial infection likely killed Ancient Egypt's most well-known pharaoh, Tutankhamun, according to a study published in Journal of the …