Scientists have revealed the minute properties of dendritic trees by reconstructing 3-D images using the advanced electron microscope technology. The research team demonstrated the principle that ...

Two high-speed electron microscopes. 7,062 brain slices. 21 million images. For a team of scientists at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus in Ashburn, Virginia, these ...

Still from a 3D image of a live mouse brain stained with red and cyan fluorescent proteins. The red parts of the image are the firing neurons, with the cyan parts being the "neural filament" ...

False colored scanning electron microscope image of neurons cultured on top of the electrode array. Actual recording experiments are performed with much higher neuron densities containing three to ...

image: This shows a serial block-face electron microscopy stack from the corpus callosum, cut down the middle, with 50 traced myelinated axons emerging, randomly colored. view more Credit: MPI f.

Scientists have managed to obtain 3-D images of the vesicles and filaments involved in communication between neurons. The method is based on a novel technique in electron microscopy, which cools ...

(Image credit: Alfonso Rodríguez-Baeza and Marisa Ortega-Sánchez, 2009.) A scanning electron microscope (SEM) image zooms in on the baroque branching structures that send blood to the human ...

These stunning images show the world from under a microscope. From spines on neurons to pollen on an insect’s eye, the winners of Nikon’s Small World photo contest offer a kaleidoscopic ...