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First devised by Zoltan Takats, a chemist and professor at Imperial College London, the technology consists of a needle-like ...
The National Geographic Ultimate Dual microscope comes with numerous accessories, to help kids feel like real scientists. (Image credit: Heather Barker) Attractive as a gift Scientific accessories ...
These water fleas (Daphnia sp.) can reproduce asexually by cloning themselves. The two pictured have embryos (left) and eggs (right). Photograph By Marek Miś, Nikon Small World ByLauren Potts ...
Scientists develop method to promote neuron growth Researchers from Stanford Medicine have found a new way to accelerate the growth of neurons, or nerve cells, according to a study published in ...
Although the neuron doctrine gained ground, it was not until the invention of the electron microscope that the issue was finally resolved for good in favour of the neuron doctrine (López-Muñoz ...
Cajal continued to write and to encourage his students, even on his deathbed in 1934. His final paper, written that year, was a detailed recapitulation of the neuron doctrine.
Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior have developed a miniature microscope small enough to be carried on the head of freely a moving mouse and capable of measuring ...
This is a time lapse of what a dying neuron looks like under a microscope. Imagine sifting through hundreds of thousands of images like these by hand! Jeremy Linsley, CC BY-NC-ND AI to the rescue ...
The impact of two-photon microscopy on functional imaging of neuron activity was recognized when the technique's pioneers were awarded the €1 million Brain Prize in 2015, but certain practical ...
In the Nov. 17 issue of Nature Communications, Smith and his co-authors report the development of a new microscope they describe as “Dual Independent Enhanced Scan Engines for Large Field-of ...