Views at various scales of two kinds of neurons (calretinin-expressing in cyan and somatostatin-expressing in magenta) in the prefrontal cortex of a human brain. Observing anything and everything ...

A fossilized spider unearthed in the grasslands of eastern Australia has turned out to be the largest of its kind ever ...

New research shows that a network of subcellular structures similar to those responsible for propagating molecular signals that make muscles contract are also responsible for transmitting signals in ...

Steven McKnight and Dirk Görlich received the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for their work on the role of ...

An MIT-based team has developed a technology pipeline that creates whole-organ, high-quality images of human brains from the gross morphological level to subcellular components. The technique enables ...

Both images show individual red blood cells. The one on the right, produced by STED, more clearly shows the Piezo1 proteins (in green), which are a mechanical calcium channel and play a crucial role ...

Brian Cunniff, an assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Vermont, will discuss how the subcellular positioning of mitochondria regulates gene-expression patterns ...

Lev T. Perelman, Harvard University, will give a talk on “Multispectral Light Scattering Imaging for Precancer Detection and Cell Analysis” Abstract: Optical spectroscopy is a powerful tool for ...

Every living thing needs nitrogen, and the world uses a significant portion of its energy making nitrogen fertilizer for ...

A suite of three innovations enables high-resolution, high-throughput imaging of human brain tissue at a full range of scales and mapping connectivity of neurons at single cell resolution. To ...