Meet Aravinthan Samuel: Indian-origin Harvard professor building a ‘smart microscope’ to map the brain’s wiring faster than before

Mapping the brain is one of the biggest challenges in modern science. Researchers are trying to understand how billions of ...

Want to speed brain research? It's all in how you look at it.

Researchers say the innovation, known as SmartEM, will speed scanning sevenfold and open the field of connectomics to a ...
News Medical

Three-dimensional microscope data reveals an expanded network of interneurons in the human brain

The analysis of the human brain is a central goal of neuroscience. However, for methodological reasons, research has largely focused on model organisms, in particular the mouse. Now, neuroscientists ...

Tightening the focus of subcellular snapshots: Combined approach yields better cell slices for cryoET imaging

Taking images of tiny structures within cells is tricky business. One technique, cryogenic electron tomography (cryoET), ...
Science X Network

Imaging living cells: First scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator inaugurated

Science X is a network of high quality websites with most complete and comprehensive daily coverage of the full sweep of science, technology, and medicine news ...
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Electron Microscopy Images Obtained from Human Oral Cancer Xenograft-Derived Tumors (IMAGE)

Electron Microscopy images obtained from human oral cancer-xenograft-derived tumors obtained from mice treated with Control (scrambled-SCR)-peptide, E2F5-mimetic peptide (E2F5) in the absence or ...
DrBicuspid

Scanning electron microscope reveals 'tooth worms'

Scanning electron microscope image of wormlike structures 'growing' from dental tubules deep inside a molar. Image courtesy of University of Maryland, Baltimore. Inside a human tooth, more than 50,000 ...