Scientists have come up with a special microscope that can not only quickly diagnose various diseases such as skin cancer, but also perform ultra-precise surgery without even cutting the skin.

They’ll send the sample of your mole to a lab, where a pathologist will check it under a microscope for cancer cells. If the biopsy shows skin cancer, your doctor will let you know the next ...

a Reddit user called Elle decided to examine her face using a microscope with 500x magnification. She wanted to take a closer look at her oversensitive skin, and wrote: "My skin can be a bit ...

When applied to treating diseases of the skin, the microscope allows medical professionals to pinpoint the exact location of the abnormality, diagnose it and treat it instantly. It could be used ...

One in five Americans is likely to get skin cancer in their lifetime, making it the most common type of cancer in the U.S.

From magazines to social media, there is a lot of advice around skin care — and some of it is misleading. TODAY contributor ...

Like most microscopes, the MSU-Vanderbilt device uses lenses to look at a patient's skin, but instead of illuminating the skin with normal white light, the device uses laser light. The laser light ...

UCLA researchers working with a team at Verily Life Sciences have designed a mobile microscope that can detect and monitor fluorescent biomarkers inside the skin with a high level of sensitivity, an ...

Alternatively, they can be more powerful scientific machines that aren’t anchored to a table, allowing you to investigate things like your teeth or skin. In other words, these are microscopes ...

Reverse direction, and it’s rough like sandpaper. Viewed under a microscope, shark skin is composed of ribbed, dragonesque scales layered like shingles on a roof. These structures, called ...