Researchers in Caltech's Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering have made a major step forward in medical imaging by taking inspiration from the field of astronomy. The paper ...

Laparoscopy, a minimally invasive surgical technique, has become the standard of care for many procedures such as prostatectomies and appendectomies due to its benefits, including faster recovery ...

A study opens new perspectives to better understand how the molecular mechanisms involved in regenerative medicine work. The study focuses on tumor necrosis factor- (TNF- ) and its receptors TNFR, ...

People's bodies can be old or young for their chronological age, depending, in part, on the amount and types of stressors they have experienced. Scientists can estimate people's biological age, but ...

Biological tissues exhibit complex interactions with light arising from the absorption and scattering by their constituent molecules and microstructures. Absorption is determined primarily by ...

Genoa (Italy), July 24, 2025 – Until today, skin, brain, and all tissues of the human body were difficult to observe in detail with an optical microscope, since the contrast in the image was hindered ...

Bioheat transfer modeling seeks to characterise the distribution and evolution of temperature in living tissues under internal metabolic activity, blood perfusion and external energy inputs. At its ...

Osaka, Japan – Most computers run on microchips, but what if we’ve been overlooking a simpler, more elegant computational tool all this time? In fact, what if we were the computational tool? As crazy ...

Could cord tissue stem cells change how we treat chronic pain and disease?