Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy

To ensure that the tissue structures of biological samples are easily recognizable under the electron microscope, they are ...

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 ...

New tools turn grain crops into living biosensors

A collaborative team of researchers from the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the University of Florida, Gainesville and ...
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Harnessing Dose-Fractionated EELS for Advanced Materials & Cryo-EM Spectroscopy

Dr. Liam Spillane highlights innovations in cryo-EM spectroscopy, detailing how dose-fractionated EELS and direct detection ...
eLife

PKD2L1 channels segregated to the apical compartment are the exclusive dual-mode pH sensor in cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons

This is an important study on the sensory roles of Cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons (CBF-cn) in mammals. The authors identify PKD2L1 as the predominant pH-sensing channel CBF-cn and show how the ...
Medical Xpress

'Listening in' on the brain's hidden language: Engineered protein detects the faintest incoming signals

Scientists have engineered a protein able to record the incoming chemical signals of brain cells (as opposed to just their outgoing signals). These whisper-quiet incoming messages are the release of ...
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Scientists Develop New Way to 'Listen in' on the Brain’s Hidden Language

Scientists at the Allen Institute use sophisticated microscopes to image the new iGluSnFR indicators, to study how neurons perform computations in the living brain. Here two scientists are aligning ...