Scars are caused by the body’s inability to regenerate the complex connective tissue in our skin after injury. During my years as a research scientist, ... Under the microscope, ...

Past attempts to look at this tissue under a microscope made it impossible to see these connected fluid-filled spaces and overall structure. Slicing it up caused the fluid to drain, emptying the ...

Scientists had long believed that connective tissue surrounding our organs was a thick, compact layer. That's what they saw when they looked at it in the lab, outside the body, at least.

See what a chicken nugget looks like under the microscope: ... The nugget from the second restaurant was 40 per cent skeletal muscle, a mix of fat and connective and organ tissue, ...

Septal panniculitis affects the connective tissue around the fat. ... The tissue sample will go to a lab to be checked under a microscope for inflammation and other signs of panniculitis.

When put under the microscope, one chicken sample consisted of just 40 percent skeletal muscle — what we tend to think of as "meat" — and just 19 percent protein. The other sample was 50 ...

The organ has seemingly been hidden in plain sight, and scientists say they missed it because of the way tissue is studied. Before being placed under a microscope, samples are thinly sliced and ...

Soft tissue sarcomas are cancers that develop in the connective and supporting tissues of the body. These include tissues such as the muscle, nerves, fat, fibrous tissue and blood vessels. There are ...

Men become more distinguished as they age and women, well, we just keep getting older. And if this isn't bad enough, a new study shows that the female skin actually starts to age faster than the ...