Leptin rewires the brain's feeding circuits
...tory -- worked with Horvath to perform comparative microscopy studies of the labeled neurons in the two strains of mice. These studies revealed the relative numbers of excitatory and inhibitory neuronal connections in the two types of mice. Both sets of studies revealed that leptin acted directly to rewire the ...Bay area to get unique x-ray microscopy resource
...s for cell and molecular biology studies. The new microscopy resource also promises a better understanding of h...(DOE) to build and operate this microscope. "X-ray microscopy is an emerging new technology that will expand the existing imaging toolbox for cell and molecular b...Building the whole cell from pieces
... Aloy, from Rob Russell's group, combined electron microscopy images (taken by the EMBL Group of Bettina Boettcher) with data from other experiments to find out how the shape and chemistry of single proteins allow them to fit together. Computer methods developed by Aloy and Russell allowed them to find likenes...Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research at Carnegie Mellon
...ls of autoimmune diseases using magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM). Used to study living animals, MRM provides near cellular detail of internal organs. Center scientists are developing quantitative methods to perform "virtual" pathologic analyses of diseased brain tissues with MRM. These analytical tools will ...Microbe's trick provides a template for willowy crystals
...suggests, could well come about with the new X-ray microscopy techniques. Ultimately, the new results may help humans learn how to mimic the processes that result in nature's material science masterpieces, substances like shell and bone, things that have never before been made from scratch by human hands. "The ...NETs protect against pathogenic bacteria
...t of Cellular Microbiology, and Volker Brinkmann's microscopy team. Their results will be published in the forth...in filaments that are visible in scanning electron microscopy (Fig. 1 and 2). The fibers are decorated with globular particles and bundle up to form more complex ......Spector, developed a multi-component, fluorescence microscopy imaging system in which the DNA near an inducible gene can be visualized, the messenger RNA (mRNA) encoded by the gene is labeled yellow, and the protein encoded by the mRNA is labeled blue. In short, the system's DNA, RNA, and proteins are labeled s...New DVD 'virtual' microscope at UNC-Chapel Hill
...quality images." Still, Koch said, the new virtual microscopy technology has not erased practicing physicians' need for traditional microscopes. "That's why we kept instructional material for using the light microscope in the syllabus," he said. "Included in the resources for this course is a video demonstratin...Capturing cell protein production in action could help fight antibiotic resistance
...actory, or ribosome, in action using cryo-electron microscopy will help scientists to begin deciphering the mole...the more stable regions. "We've used cryo-electron microscopy in a similar way to time lapse footage. It has allowed us to visualise how one cog in a cell's prote...Imaging technique reveals new structure in retinal cells
...ed a pulse laser to perform two-photon fluorescent microscopy on the retinas of live, anesthetized mice. The low-power, non-invasive technique allowed the researchers to examine the retina tissue within the eye without damaging it. After discovering the previously unknown structure, the researchers isolated it...Optically recording millisecond brain nerve impulses
...-- Combining the bright laser light of multiphoton microscopy with specially developed dyes and a phenomenon called second-harmonic generation, biophysicists at Cornell University and Universit de Rennes, France, have made high-resolution images of millisecond-by-millisecond signaling through nerve cells. The f...Imaging technique discovered at Stanford monitors cancer cell proliferation
...into the cell nuclei. When used with a specialized microscopy technique called total internal reflection fluores... This biosensor also can be used with conventional microscopy techniques and, although the resolution is not as great as with total internal reflection microscopy...Reverse-direction movement of a molecular motor
...h spatial and temporal resolution using near-field microscopy techniques," says Tsiavaliaris, who started working on the project during the final phase of his PhD project and is now one of the youngest professors in Germany....Smallpox in 50-year-old tissues detected by integrated diagnostics approach
...racteristic of poxvirus infection. Next, electron microscopy allowed the team to examine the structure of the virus. Despite the condition of the sample, this analysis readily revealed viral particles consistent with a poxvirus in various stages of replication. Taken together, these results suggested primary ...Protein data bank opens new era with broader support
...3-Dstructure fields with linkages made to electron microscopy (EM)data. EM experimental data will make an enormous impact in thenext five years in molecular biology." Over the next five years, the PDB's challenges will also includekeeping up with the increasing complexity and volume of depositedstructures, mee...Carnegie Mellon enhances Quantum Dot Corp. technology for long-term, live-animal imaging
...ed worldwide for its work in revolutionizing light microscopy and fluorescent probes for live cell imaging. The center's current focus involves the development of instrumentation and chemistry systems for biological research and medicine....Bacteria discoveries could resemble Mars, other planets
...gn of bacterial activity. They then used electron microscopy that revealed tiny (two- to three-micrometer) spheres that looked like microbes in those same parts of the rock that contained the DNA and protein building blocks. There also was a significant difference in the levels of carbon, phosphorous, chloride...Telescience recognized for facilitating biomedical research on a global network
...elescience has created a paradigm shift in the way microscopy is performed. Scientists who once had to travel to gather data are now able to access to a growing number of tools over the Internet to help in the study of schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. Telescience is creating a vision of biological resea...Researchers find mechanism bacteria use to target specific chemical contaminants
...a relatively new technique called biological force microscopy to measure the molecular forces between S. oneidensis and a crystal of iron oxide. Force microscopy lets scientists measure the minutest interactions between the surfaces of two substances. Such micro...