Researchers used advanced cryo-electron microscopy to capture atomic-level images of how glutamate, a key neurotransmitter, ...

Volume electron microscopy (vEM) allows visualizing the cellular ultrastructure at the nanometer level in three dimensions. This approach has been widely applied in cell biology research to unveil ...

Powerful genetic tools previously used to probe and manipulate neuronal cells have uncovered key ... We acquired a series of 2D electron microscopy images of a male fly’s central nervous system ...

or in standard form as 1 × 10 −9 m. Electron microscopes use a beam of electrons instead of beams or rays of light. Living cells cannot be observed using an electron microscope because samples ...

The core has both scanning electron ... cell cloning and cellular expansion are just a few of the downstream applications of sorting cells. Instrumentation that can examine either tissue or single ...

Johns Hopkins researchers used cryo-electron microscopy to study how glutamate opens AMPA receptors, which control brain ...

In an effort to understand how brain cells exchange chemical messages, scientists say they have successfully used a highly specialized microscope to capture more precise details of how one of the most ...

There are large black-and-white photographs of blood cells. An 11-foot long sculpture ... All were created using images generated by scanning electron microscopy, abbreviated as SEM.

Every day, billions of cells in your body divide ... which is more compact than normal DNA. Using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a team of structural and molecular biologists at Memorial ...

Mitochondria are the powerhouses in our cells, producing the energy for ... Fellow and first author of the study. "Using the electron microscope, individual supercomplexes were clearly visible ...