PHOENIX, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have developed a miniature, hand-held microscope that may allow more precise removal of brain tumors. Neurosurgeons at the Barrow Neurological ...

Brain tumor tissue can be hard to distinguish from normal brain during surgery. Neurosurgeons use their best judgment in the operating room but often must guess exactly where the edges of the tumor ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- There is amazing new technology that's helping surgeons perform the most delicate of all operations -- brain surgery. It saved the life of a Westchester County teenager whose ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... University of Colorado neuroscientists and bioengineers at the Anschutz Medical Campus and in Boulder have created a miniature, fiber-optic microscope that ...

For centuries, the field of pathology has been defined by a single instrument: the microscope. But according to William Westra, MD, vice chair of Anatomic Pathology at Moffitt Cancer Center, the field ...

What Is a Brain Tumor? A brain tumor (also called an intracranial tumor) is a cluster of abnormal cells that grows in or around your brain. There are over a hundred types of tumors that develop in the ...

Working with mice, researchers have developed a relatively inexpensive, portable mini microscope that could improve scientists' ability to image the effects of cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's disease and ...