A glioma is a type of tumor that originates in the central nervous system, specifically in the brain or spinal cord. These tumors originate in glial cells, supportive cells in the brain which serve to ...

A collaborative effort between engineers and biologists at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has ...

Nikon Instruments Inc. today announced the winners of the 50th annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, celebrating five decades of excellence in microscopy and digital imaging. This ...

From spines on neurons to pollen on an insect’s eye, the winners of Nikon’s Small World photo contest offer a kaleidoscopic ...

Nikon just announced the winners of the 2024 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition, where scientific microscope ...

Volume electron microscopy reveals a novel cellular process that is critical for healthy brain development, with implications ...

Princeton University scientists have mapped the brain of an adult fruit fly, making major strides to better understand the ...

What actually happens in the brain in cases of depression? Relatively unknown brain cells—"astrocytes"—are believed to play ...

Specifically, she uses Caenorhabditis elegans to look at how stress impacts neurons, learning and memory in the worms ... discussed her research from the new microscopy room in the lower level of the ...

In trials of the new protocol, christened 20ExM, the project was able to image synaptic nanocolumns within brain cells, the clusters of proteins arranged in a specific way at synapses that allow ...

Stanford researchers gained new insights into how to promote neuron growth, how oceans absorb carbon dioxide more slowly than ...

The holy grail for this avenue of research would be, eventually, to map out the complete human brain. It is estimated that ...