With a so-called cryo plasma-FIB (Plasma Focused Ion Beam) scanning electron microscope with nanomanipulator, Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany) is expanding its research infrastructure with a ...

Evident unveiled the winners of its sixth annual Image of the Year contest, an awards competition that recognizes the world’s best in scientific microscopic imaging. The winners were selected from ...

In mouse brain cells, and in follow-up work involving worms and human cortical neurons, the team found that many axons ...

Scientists have found a way to map the intricate patterns of cells in mouse brain tissue with an off-the-shelf light microscope, using a trick that inflates a tiny sample to 16 times its original size ...

An international team of researchers led by the Francis Crick Institute, working with the Paul Scherrer Institute, have developed a new imaging protocol to capture mouse brain cell connections in ...

Why don't humans grow new brain cells? A new study shows "tunneling" neurons in songbirds may explain our limited capacity ...

Scientists discover new neurons in zebra finch brains tunnel through tissue, potentially explaining human brain vulnerability ...