The protective cells accumulated microplastics, instead of digesting them, and then the damaged cells clumped up in the brain ...

Neurons may get all the glory, but they would be nothing without glial cells. While brain cells do the heavy lifting in the ...

A breakthrough study published today in the Journal of Neuroscience sheds new light on how brain cells relay critical information from their extremities to their nucleus, leading to the activation of ...

Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) has received a £500,000 grant from the Wolfson Foundation to purchase an ultrafast confocal spinning disc microscope. This instrument will accelerate ...

Tissue processing advance can label proteins at the level of individual cells across whole, intact rodent brains and other ...

This microscope photo provided by the McLean Hospital's Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center in January 2024 shows cells in the caudate nucleus structure of the brain in a person with Huntington's ...

From bicycle beacons to camping lamps, every lab member has a portable light on their bench ... titled ‘Expansion microscopy’. Transparent tissues bring cells into focus for microscopy In ...

Scientists are unraveling the mystery of what triggers Huntington’s disease, a devastating and fatal hereditary disorder that strikes in the prime of life, causing nerve cells in parts of the brain to ...

A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience sheds new light on how brain cells relay critical information ... Using advanced microscopy techniques, graduate student Katlin Zent in Dr. Dell ...