The Israel-Korea Binational Forum on Biomedicine will take place at Magnolia, Hoam Faculty House, Seoul National University, Dec. 8, 2011. Website: http://www.kast.or.kr/event/biomed/ Venue: http://www.hoam.ac.kr/english/convention/convention.html learn more

Researchers at RIKEN, Japan's flagship research organization, have developed a ground-breaking new aqueous reagent which literally turns biological tissue transparent. Experiments using fluorescence microscopy on samples treated with the reagent, published this week in Nature Neuroscience, have produced vivid 3D images of neurons ... learn more