Because of recent advances in genetic engineering techniques, activities of specific nerve cells can be optically measured and manipulated under a microscope.

Because of recent advances in genetic engineering techniques, activities of specific nerve cells can be optically measured and manipulated under a microscope.

Then, they identified all synapses between the two nerve cells under the electron microscope. They correlated the size of these synapses with the synaptic impulses they had measured previously.

According to them, the high-resolution fluorescence microscope can reveal even the tiniest of cell processes, and it promises to offer much richer information.

How do the nerve cells in our brain communicate with each other? What processes take place when T cells render cancer cells harmless? Details of the mechanisms at the cellular level remain hidden ...

Glial cells may take on big jobs in unexpected parts of the body Found in the spleen, heart and lungs, are these neglected cells star players?

Researchers at the Center for Life Sciences at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have for the first time identified structural changes in the botulinum neurotoxin, botox for short, that are believed ...

A lot has happened since scientists in the late 19th century first started examining nerve cells under the microscope. Anatomy, chemistry, physiology and cell biology in healthy as well as in sick ...

KS3 Biology Living organisms learning resources for adults, children, parents and teachers.

Blood Clots, Liver Cells and Bird Flu Are Surprisingly Beautiful Under a Microscope The brightly-colored micrographs and scans in a new book, Science is Beautiful, answer big questions about the ...

A surgeon looked at 7 clitorises under a microscope and found they're packed with 10,000 nerve fibers. It could be a game-changing discovery.

Methods that target single nerve cells in mice and fruit fly brains are starting to tease apart the brain’s complexity.