A brain contains hundreds or thousands of different kinds of neurons, each with its own shape, connections and function. Yet ...
Science educator Adolfo Sanchez-Blanco has performed a variety of straightforward, intriguing, and enjoyable experiments to ...
Microplastic contamination in biological systems is becoming a significant concern in environmental and biomedical studies.
For over 60 years, scientists have debated a basic structural question about cone photoreceptors, the cells that let vertebrates see color: are their light-sensing disk membranes closed off inside the ...
AI-assisted atomic force microscopy identifies tiny surface structures such as nanostructures, DNA assemblies and bacterial cells, and directs ...
The Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS has developed a new technology that can significantly improve the image quality of optical microscopes. A specially designed micromechanical ...
How visual-based assessment assists researchers to judge cellular identity and avoid experimental bias HUSTON, TX, ...
MIT engineers used voltage imaging to map single electrical spikes across nearly a whole zebrafish brain at 200 scans per ...
Skeletal muscle stem cells (MuSC) are the guardians of muscle regeneration, sustaining tissue integrity through a delicate ...
Mitochondrial outer membrane imaged with SPIFFI (left) versus widefield microscopy (right). EPFL CC BY SA - 4.0 A new ...
You don't need a bulky microscope to take a closer look at tiny details. These clever accessories give your phone some ...
Huntington’s disease (HD) is caused by an expansion of a short DNA sequence — the letters C-A-G — located in the very first ...