A new microscope combines ultrafast light pulses with sound detection to map single-cell molecular activity far deeper than ...

Advanced light microscopy techniques are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in ...

Both for research and medical purposes, researchers have spent decades pushing the limits of microscopy to produce ever ...

Both for research and medical purposes, researchers have spent decades pushing the limits of microscopy to produce ever ...

Oligodendrocytes are a type of large glial cell found in the central nervous system. Oligodendrocytes produce the myelin sheath insulating neuronal axons (analogous to Schwann cells in the ...

Glial biology articles from across Nature Portfolio The study of the molecular and cellular biology of glial cells, for example, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, Schwann cells and microglia.