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Spinning Disk Statistical Imaging System Helps Visualize Protein Structures and Sub-Cellular Macromolecules

The microscopic technique, developed by researchers at Queen Mary University of London, represents a major advance for cell biologists as it will allow them to investigate structures deep inside the cell, such as viruses, bacteria and parts of the nucleus in depth.

11 Oct 2013

New Insight into How Fly Brain Extracts Information About Visual Scenes to Guide Behavior

As a tiny fruit fly navigates through its environment, it relies on visual landmarks to orient itself. Now, researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus have identified neurons deep in the fly’s brain that tune in to some of the same basic visual features that neurons in bigger animals such as humans pick out in their surroundings.

10 Oct 2013

Researchers Employ Novel 3-D Printing Technology to Cage Bacteria in Microscopic Houses

By caging bacteria in microscopic houses, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin are studying how communities of bacteria, such as those found in the human gut and lungs, interact and develop infections.

8 Oct 2013

‘Motion Blur Point Accumulation for Imaging in Nanoscale Topography’ Technique Improves DNA Mapping

With high-tech optical tools and sophisticated mathematics, Rice University researchers have found a way to pinpoint the location of specific sequences along single strands of DNA, a technique that could someday help diagnose genetic diseases.

8 Oct 2013

SLAC 0X-ray Microscope Helps Observe Nanometer-Scale Details of Molten Iron under Intense Pressures and Temperatures

Stanford scientists recreated the intense pressures and temperatures found deep within the Earth, resulting in a discovery that complicates theories of how the planet and its core were formed.

8 Oct 2013

Rhenium-Based Complex Trapped Inside Zeolite Can Warn About Dangerous Fumes

Rice University scientists took a lesson from craftsmen of old to assemble microscopic compounds that warn of the presence of dangerous fumes from solvents.

8 Oct 2013

Biologists Develop Novel Method to Visualize Activity of Genes in Single Cells

Biologists of the University of Zurich have developed a method to visualize the activity of genes in single cells. The method is so efficient that, for the first time, a thousand genes can be studied in parallel in ten thousand single human cells. Applications lie in fields of basic research and medical diagnostics. The new method shows that the activity of genes, and the spatial organization of the resulting transcript molecules, strongly vary between single cells.

7 Oct 2013

Researchers Study Ions in Sodium-Potassium Pump

It's not visible to the naked eye and you can't feel it, but up to 40 per cent of your body's energy goes into supplying the microscopic sodium-potassium pump with the energy it needs. The pump is constantly doing its job in every cell of all animals and humans. It works much like a small battery which, among other things, maintains the sodium balance which is crucial to keep muscles and nerves working.

7 Oct 2013

Novel Microscope Utilizes Neutrons for Creating High-Resolution Images

Researchers at MIT, working with partners at NASA, have developed a new concept for a microscope that would use neutrons — subatomic particles with no electrical charge — instead of beams of light or electron...

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 7 Oct 2013

Harvard's Wyss Institute Team Receives NIH Grant to Develop DNA-Based Microscopy Method

A team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has been awarded a special $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop an inexpensive and easy-to-use new microscopy method to simultaneously spot many tiny components of cells.

5 Oct 2013

Microscopy News

Spinning Disk Statistical Imaging System Helps Visualize Protein Structures and Sub-Cellular Macromolecules

New Insight into How Fly Brain Extracts Information About Visual Scenes to Guide Behavior

Researchers Employ Novel 3-D Printing Technology to Cage Bacteria in Microscopic Houses

‘Motion Blur Point Accumulation for Imaging in Nanoscale Topography’ Technique Improves DNA Mapping

SLAC 0X-ray Microscope Helps Observe Nanometer-Scale Details of Molten Iron under Intense Pressures and Temperatures

Rhenium-Based Complex Trapped Inside Zeolite Can Warn About Dangerous Fumes

Biologists Develop Novel Method to Visualize Activity of Genes in Single Cells

Researchers Study Ions in Sodium-Potassium Pump

Novel Microscope Utilizes Neutrons for Creating High-Resolution Images

Harvard's Wyss Institute Team Receives NIH Grant to Develop DNA-Based Microscopy Method

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