Microglial cells recognize areas of damage and inflammation and swallow cellular debris. The larger orange shape is an oligodendrocyte. The ragged extensions of an oligodendrocyte can supply many ...

Spencer Smith, PhD, peers through a microscope of his own creation, trying to home in on a single neuron. The cell is tiny, about 0.015 millimeters in diameter. He attempts to clamp a microscopic ...

Algorithm helps analyze neuron images Date: December 7, 2015 Source: Brown University ... Neurites are tiny structures that are hard to see under a microscope during live-cell imaging.

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.

Brain cells from a chick (purple), turtle ... who in the late 1800s drew what he saw under the microscope. ... Researchers generally agree on some neuron types, such as the chandelier cell.

New AI technique identifies dead cells under the microscope 100 times faster than people can – potentially accelerating research on neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s ...

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 ...

When the electron microscope finally revealed the synapse in 1955, ... Eve Marder of Brandeis University has found that these neuromodulators work when applied to axons, the neuron cell body, ...