Lymph node dissections, or lymphadenectomies, are surgical procedures that play an important role in cancer treatments. A healthcare professional will remove the lymph nodes and check a tissue sample ...

2-Photon microscope image of the germinal centre inside a lymph node, showing B cells (green) moving around and tingible body macrophages (red) evenly dispersed to grab the dead and dying cells ...

During an antibody response, sites of massive cell death arise in the germinal centers of lymph nodes. One of the macrophage cell types, tingible body macrophages (TBMs), help with apoptotic cell ...

Despite recent advances in diagnosing cancer, many cases are still diagnosed using biopsies and analyzing thin slices of tissue underneath a microscope. Properly analyzing these tissue sample slides ...

Information technology can make life easier in many areas - including research. In medicine, for example, it is still standard practice to evaluate microscopy images of tissue sections by hand. This ...