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.

A method to efficiently turn human stem cells into retinal ganglion cells, the type of nerve ... so once a cell differentiated into a retinal ganglion cell, it would appear red under a microscope.

Schematic drawing of the robot microscope system for optical manipulation of a nerve cell. (Adapted from Tanimoto et al ., Scientific Reports ) view more Credit: <i>Scientific Reports</i> ...

The Human Body Under the Microscope A visual voyage through the cells, organs, microbes and molecules that make up our bodies. By Colin Salter. ... (nerve cells) with myelin, an insulating material ...

The synaptic cleft, meaning the distance between two nerve cells or between a nerve cell and a muscle cell, is just 10 to 50 nanometers—too small for conventional microscopes.

The synaptic cleft, meaning the distance between two nerve cells or between a nerve cell and a muscle cell, is just 10 to 50 ...

Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a method to efficiently turn human stem cells into retinal ganglion cells, the type of nerve cells located within the retina that transmit visual signals from ...

"By the 30th day of culture, there were obvious clumps of fluorescent cells visible under the microscope," says lead author Valentin Sluch, Ph.D., a former Johns Hopkins biochemistry, cellular and ...

Researchers viewed slices of postmortem brains of 13 formerly healthy people aged 43 to 87 under a microscope, and saw thousands of what appeared to be newborn nerve cells.

A tickly itch, a painful scratch, or the feeling of a refreshing breeze—the skin is teaming with nerve endings that drive these sensations. Scientists are getting into the epidermis to explore how ...

Turning the powerful lattice light sheet microscope on expanded fruit fly brains and sections of mice brains revealed features of individual nerve cells, the researchers report in the Jan. 18 Science.